An objection to the above answer: a loan conditional on buying a form

Question

Question: Most revered Hazrat ﵋, al-salamu ʿalaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. The answer to the istifta (request for a fatwa) has been received, but, as a student, I have two misgivings. The first is that the Muslim Fund (an interest-free Muslim loan society) gives a loan only when a form has been bought and brought; people know this well and the established practice (taʿamul) rests on it.

Answer

The sale transaction is with one person, from whom the form is bought; after that it is no concern of his whether the buyer uses it or not. This sale is without any condition and is valid, even if the seller is the agent (wakil) of the lender; but the rights of the sale contract (the option, or for defect, delivery of the object of sale, receipt of the price, and the like)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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