Question
It is noticed that mileage does impact car performance but not entirely. Other factors can also greatly impact car ability in the long run such as bad usage like hard driving habits, non maintenance, accidents and inherent mechanical problems like turbos and the like. Still too mileage does play a role in the condition of second hand vehicles. So if a person knowingly turns back the mileage and sells the car saying I don't know how true this mileage is, what is the condition of this sale?
Answer
It is haraam to turn back the mileage. It is concealing a defect regardless of it not being a major defect. But in the Urf of the Tujjaar (traders) it is a major defect which can substantially reduce the price. The sale is haraam. Assuming it is not a defect, then too it is a major sin to perpetrate such gross deception and fraud by tricking a buyer regarding the mileage. It is sinful – extremely sinful. The money earned by deception is haraam.
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- themajlis.co.za
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- The Majlis Vol 28 No 04
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- 24
Appears under Hadhrat Fudhail Bin lyaadh (approximate).