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Is the income of a taxi driver considered unlawful if some of his passengers are those who possess unlawful wealth, based on Abu Bakr's refusal to eat a date from wealth that its owner had acquired during the pre-Islamic era of ignorance (Jahiliyyah)?

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The work of a driver is permissible, and the wage is lawful. And the action of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, was in regard to one who knew that what he was taking was precisely unlawful. Indeed, Al-Bukhari reported from Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, that Abu Bakr put his finger in his mouth and vomited everything in his stomach after he learned that what he had eaten was in exchange for his soothsaying in the Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic era).

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