Accepting a gift a brother received from his commercial bank

A question about accepting a gift a brother received from his commercial bank, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that there is no objection to accepting the gift, because the gift itself carries no prohibition and any sin does not pass to the recipient. ¹

The questioner asked about accepting a gift his brother gave him from among the gifts a commercial bank distributes to its employees. ¹

The Department answered that there is no objection to accepting such gifts, because the gift itself carries no prohibition, unlike stolen property, so any sin does not extend to the recipient, citing Surat al-An'am 6:164. ¹ It noted that the Prophet ate the food of Jews and traded and bought from them, although their wealth was mixed with riba, and that the wealth of interest-based banks is of the kind in which lawful and unlawful are mixed. ¹ It quoted Ibn Hajar al-Haytami in Tuhfat al-Muhtaj (9/389) that dealing with someone most of whose wealth is unlawful, or eating from it, is not forbidden, as al-Nawawi affirmed in al-Majmu. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4457, dated 5 May 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.