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Islamic Tradition Offers Unusual Sign of Jihad: Debt Repayment
By Colby Adams
printIn the financial compliance world, debt repayment doesn't usually attract much in the way of negative attention. But in the context of other red flags, sudden debt reimbursement can signal that a client is following a little-known stricture for Islamic soldiers who may soon die in battle. The canonical text-part of a collection of anecdotal accounts of the life of the prophet Muhammad, known as hadith-states that martyrs "who always fought facing the enemy" will be forgiven of all their sins in life but debt. Islamic scholars have attributed the Sunni account to the writings of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, a...
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