Bookbinding with the price of the sacrificial hide

Question

Question: May the books of community libraries be bound with the sacrificial hide or its price or not? What do the scholars of the religion say on this matter?

Answer

The sacrificial hide is like the sacrificial meat; that is, it is correct to put it to one’s own use, and it is also permissible to give it to a rich person, a poor person, a sayyid and so on. Hence, if it was transferred into the ownership (tamlik)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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