Brokerage on behalf of the seller and the buyer

Question

Question: A friend of ours has a father whose occupation is brokerage (dalala). In it, it happens like this: someone needs a house or land, and the seller says: “If you bring a buyer for this land, for this house, I will give you one rupee, or so many rupees, per hundred rupees”; and the one who is in need says: “If there is any house, find it — I will give one or two rupees per hundred rupees.

Answer

This income is sound; it is correct to put it to one’s own use. On such income, according to the rules of the Shari‘a, Hajj may even become obligatory (fard).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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