Details of the right of pre-emption (shufʿa)

Question

Question: What are the conditions for claiming the Sharʿi right of pre-emption (shufʿa) and for establishing it; what are the things on account of which this right lapses; what is the time limit for claiming it; and to which people does it belong?

Answer

When someone sells an immovable thing he owns — a house or the like — three categories of people, in order, acquire the right of pre-emption (shufʿa) over it: first, the one who is a co-owner in the sold property itself; then the one who is a partner in a right attached to the sold property — the passage; then the one who is a neighbour.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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