What is the ruling of Islamic law regarding a landlord reducing the rent for those who pay within the first five days, and gradually increasing it for those who delay payment?
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If the rent is fifty thousand, and the owner reduces it to forty thousand for whoever pays within the first five days, and to forty-five thousand for whoever pays after ten days, there is no harm in that. This is considered a conditional gift, encouraging early payment. The conditioning of a gift upon a condition is permissible according to some Hanafis and Hanbalis, and it was chosen by Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim, who cited the of Jabir and some other hadiths from which its permissibility can be understood.
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