Arrow in the language: the share.As for the terminology: it is a document truly represents the kind or cash in the capital of the company's negotiable - I mean, buying and selling - and gives its owner special rights.
Types of shares:
Range of shares to several types of three merits:
First: in terms of share; and is divided into two parts:
1 - Cash shares: that to be the capital of the company's shares would pay shareholders cash money of gold or silver or what takes the place of money from the banknotes.
Rule: Scientists agree that, if a company's capital shares as a company that reviews are correct.
2 - Shares in kind: and this would be the company's capital offers trade; it contributes people fabrics or machines or food ... etc..
Verdict: a difference of opinion among the scholars:
A - Most of the scholars that, if a company's capital offers this is not right.
B - is the view of Imam Malik, narrated from Imam Ahmad and Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim that this is true and good, if involved two or more and made the capital of the company cars or food or clothing or other things that they agree upon this Permissible and there is nothing wrong with it, and know the share of each one of them from the company's capital.
