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CORPBOND

Corporate Bonds

HARAM — SCREEN DOES NOT PASSFixed-income

Is CORPBOND Halal?

Corporate bonds pay interest — riba. Same as government bonds.

What You Should Know

A conventional corporate bond is a loan to an issuer with a contractual coupon or discount return and repayment of principal. The quantitative instrument screen fails because the return is interest rather than a share of asset rent, trade profit or partnership risk. The issuer's otherwise permissible business does not convert the bond contract into equity or sukuk.

⚠️ Concerns

  • •Contractual coupon or discount return (riba)
  • •Principal-and-interest debt claim
  • •Credit, duration and default risk remain separate from permissibility
  • •Sukuk must be checked by structure rather than label

Current quantitative Sharia screen

Based on Instrument reference figures for the period ended 2026-07-14; calculated 2026-07-14.

Fixed-income instrument · issuer screen N/A
Issuer financial ratios are not applicable to this asset. This is a fixed-income instrument rather than an operating company or fund. The relevant Sharia questions are the contractual return, ownership of underlying assets, use of proceeds, payment source, guarantees, repurchase mechanics and tradability. The placeholder inputs are retained for schema integrity only and are not a financial classification. The methodology rows below preserve the qualitative, school-dependent analysis.
FTSE Yasaar issuer screen (not applicable)
v4.6, February 2026
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

Equity issuer ratios do not classify a corporate bond; the conventional interest/discount contract independently fails.

MSCI Islamic issuer screen (not applicable)
October 2024 methodology
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

No issuer balance-sheet denominator exists for a bond; contract-level return and principal obligations are decisive.

Malaysia SAC issuer screen (not applicable)
November 2025 methodology
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

Company financial ratios do not apply to a conventional corporate debt security; the interest-bearing contract fails independently.

Market-cap issuer methods (not applicable)
Market-cap denominators are equity methods
Financial
Not calculated
Overall
Fails

Market capitalization cannot replace contract-level analysis of a fixed-income security.

Business-activity disclosure

The covered conventional corporate bonds create a lender-borrower relationship with contractual interest or a discount return and repayment of principal. The issuer's primary business may be permissible, but the bond contract itself remains an interest-bearing loan.

Limitation: There is no single issuer revenue or balance-sheet input that can make an individual bond contract halal; the decisive evidence is the prospectus, payment waterfall, security package and governing documents.

Purification

The instrument is marked as failing because its return mechanism is interest; a donation percentage is not a substitute for avoiding the conventional debt contract.

Inputs, assumptions and primary sources
  • A conventional corporate bond is a debt claim on an issuer, not an equity interest in its operating assets; company balance-sheet ratios are not a substitute for contract analysis.
  • Coupon, floating-rate, zero-coupon and high-yield variants all require review of the contractual return and principal obligation; credit risk and yield level do not change the basic debt form.
  • The placeholder inputs are retained only for the shared screening schema and are not a financial classification.
FINRA: Bonds and fixed-income products for investorsInvestor.gov: Corporate bond basics and issuer obligationsZakatInvest methodology: Fixed-income instrument screen (not an equity issuer screen)

This is a reproducible financial screen, not a fatwa. A failed total-assets screen can coexist with a pass under a market-cap methodology. ZakatInvest keeps the qualitative assessment separate so numerical thresholds do not erase material context.

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