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Does an employee bear sin for financially participating with a company supplier, sometimes giving him priority, knowing that he supplies at a better price and quality, and none of his colleagues are aware of this? And what should he do if there is sin in that?

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Source: FtawySummary from Ftawy's records · added here Sep 2, 20261 min readAlso available in العربية
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It is permissible for an employee to partner with a supplier outside official working hours, but it is not permissible for him to favor a supplier with whom he partners in supplying raw materials to the company without the company's knowledge that the employee is a partner of the supplier. If the company permits the employee to purchase from the supplier, then it is permissible; otherwise, it is not. This is because the employee acts as an agent for the company, and his purchase from a supplier with whom he is partnered is considered purchasing from himself. An agent's purchase from himself is not valid except with the permission of his principal.

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