Ma`rifat Eqtesadi

“Cash retail without inventory”, known as Dropshipping, is a new type of buying and selling model in which the seller sells goods without having inventory. In this article, we examine the legitimacy of this type of transaction from the perspective of Islamic jurisprudence using an analytical-jurisprudential method. For this type of transaction, there are several cases: partial sale, general sale with liability, and agency sale. Based on the findings of the research, in the case of partial sale in dropshipping, citing narrations such as " Don't sell anything you don't have.", three approaches are proposed: invalidating the sale in the case of lack of ownership of the sold item, applying it to a non-existent sale with the consent of the original owner, and permitting it if there is the power to deliver the goods. Carrying out this transaction as a general sale with a guarantee, in Cash and delivery at the moment, without the need to apply it to a previous sale, is permissible in Shiite jurisprudence; provided that the seller has the ability to deliver the sold item and transparency in the contracts is observed. However, the proposal to carry out this transaction based on a sale of agency, which has been put forward by Sunni scholars to correct it, is not fully consistent with the main nature of this type of transaction, which is based on a sale to the retailer himself.