Lending grain and collecting more

Question

Question: Often at sowing time they give seed, and after the harvest is cut they take one and a quarter maund (a unit of weight, ≈ 37 kg) instead of one maund. Is this interest (riba) or what is it?

Answer

This is interest (riba).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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