Allah protect." Meaning: to destruction. Permission to hold it in a manner that does not entail this risk and does not negate the possibility of returning it to its owner does not imply permission for what entails that. As for the absence of the owner and his agent, he may travel with it if it is more protective for it, as it is a case of necessity, so he chooses to do what contains the benefit.

Section: If death approaches him, his ruling is the ruling of travel, according to what has preceded of its rulings, except in taking it with him, because each of them is a cause for the deposit to leave his possession.

1068- Issue: He said: (And if it were debased coins and he mixed them with sound ones, or sound ones and he mixed them with debased ones, there is no liability upon him).

He means by "debased" (ghallah) the broken/inferior currency, if he mixes them with sound ones from his own wealth, or mixes sound ones with broken/inferior ones, he is not liable for them, because they are distinguishable from them, so he is not incapable of returning them to their owner, and thus he is not liable for them, just as if he left them in a box containing his own bags. Al-Shafi'i and Malik stated this, and we do not know of any disagreement regarding it. The same ruling applies if he mixes silver coins (dirhams) with gold coins (dinars), or white ones with black ones. It has been narrated from Ahmad, regarding one who mixes white dirhams with black ones: he is liable. Perhaps he said that because they might acquire blackness from them, or their color might change, thus decreasing their value; if there is no harm in it, there is no liability upon him. And Allah the Exalted knows best.