FAB Islamic FAB Islamic Car Finance (Murabaha)
Islamic Car Financing in Sharjah
Murabaha auto finance up to AED 1.5 million or 80% of the car's value, for new and pre-owned vehicles, with a 90-day grace period before the first installment. Pricing is published in an honest dual format: UAE nationals with the Multi Product Package (salary transfer + Islamic credit card) pay from 2.15% flat (equivalent to 4.10% reducing), expats from 2.29% flat (4.35% reducing); salary transfer without the card prices at 3.19%/3.24% flat, and self-employed rates start at 3.44% flat (6.43% reducing). A worked example on-page shows a AED 100,000, 48-month finance costing AED 13,292-13,500 in total profit. Processing is 1.05% of the finance amount.
The best-priced and best-disclosed Islamic car finance in the UAE, with one caveat: the 2.15% poster rate is a bundle price. Do the arithmetic FAB itself enables: at the salary-only tier (3.19% flat) SIB's 2.49% flat without any salary transfer wins, and Ajman's capped AED 2,500 processing can beat FAB's 1.05% on big tickets. What FAB deserves unreserved credit for is the worked example showing total profit in dirhams, exactly the disclosure standard regulators should mandate. Bundle-willing FAB customers should not shop elsewhere.
Pros
- 2.15% flat (4.10% reducing) is the lowest documented Islamic car rate in this cluster
- Total-cost worked example eliminates flat-rate deception
- Self-employed pricing published, which most banks hide
- 90-day grace beats SIB and Ajman Bank's standard schedules
Cons
- Headline rate demands the full bundle: salary transfer plus Islamic credit card
- 1.05% processing fee where Ajman Bank caps at AED 2,500
- Unbundled customers pay 3.19%+, worse than SIB's no-strings 2.49%
- Window rather than fully Islamic institution, for those who weight that
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Product Details
Structure
murabaha
Vehicle Types
New, Pre-owned
Down Payment
20%
Terms
Up to 60 months
Max Amount
AED 1,500,000
FAB Islamic in Sharjah
FAB Islamic offers Islamic car financing relevant to Sharjah residents using a murabaha structure. Unlike a conventional car loan, the bank buys or shares ownership of the vehicle and earns a disclosed profit on that ownership rather than interest. The minimum deposit is 20%. FAB Islamic operates across the UAE, so Sharjah residents have full access to this product.
Our Take on FAB Islamic
FAB Islamic is the strongest argument that a window can match a full Islamic bank on substance. The governance architecture goes beyond CBUAE minimums: named scholars with disclosed attendance, per-product fatwas customers can download before signing, segregated Shariah control and audit, and an Islamic Treasury managing the window's own liquidity. Pricing leads the market for bundled customers (2.15% flat auto, 3.99% home with a green discount, 4.79% personal finance), with worked total-cost examples printed on the pages, a disclosure habit regulators should make mandatory. The catch is the bundle: headline rates require salary transfer plus a FAB card, and unbundled pricing is materially worse. Purists who reject the window model on principle (as Qatar's regulator did) will prefer a fully Islamic balance sheet; for everyone else, FAB Islamic is arguably the best-documented halal retail offering in the UAE.
How FAB Islamic Works
Price the bundle first
FAB's headline Islamic rates (2.15% flat auto, 3.99% home, 4.79% personal) assume salary transfer plus a FAB card. Confirm your bundled eligibility before comparing, and demand the unbundled quote in writing if you will not move your salary.
Download the fatwa and the example
Each product page links its ISSC fatwa PDF and a worked total-cost example. Read both before signing; they are the exact documents a diligent customer needs and almost no other bank provides.
Use the pool disclosures for savings
Mudarabah savings publish pool financials and expected rates; campaign rates (4%) are time-boxed, so check the current declaration rather than the advertisement.
Check the green discount
For certified sustainable properties, ask for the green home finance rate below the standard 3.99%; FAB is currently the only UAE Islamic offering with a published green discount.
Financing Structure
FAB Islamic is an Islamic window: a Shariah-compliant business line inside a conventional bank, permitted and regulated in the UAE under CBUAE rules (unlike Qatar, which banned the model in 2011). Segregation is delivered through a board-approved Islamic Window Framework: separate Islamic funds and Mudarabah pools with published pool disclosures, a dedicated Islamic Treasury and Islamic ALCO managing the window's liquidity, and Internal Shariah Control and Audit departments reporting to the ISSC. Products use classical contracts: Mudarabah savings pools, Ijarah home finance, Murabaha auto finance and commodity/sukuk Murabaha personal finance, each carrying a published ISSC fatwa. The Higher Shariah Authority layer applies to the window as it does to full Islamic banks.
In-Depth Analysis
First Abu Dhabi Bank, formed from the 2017 merger of National Bank of Abu Dhabi and First Gulf Bank, is the UAE's largest bank, and its Islamic window inherits that scale. The window operates under a board-approved Islamic Window Framework with its own Internal Shariah Control Department, Internal Shariah Audit Department, Islamic Treasury and Islamic ALCO, the fullest segregation stack disclosed by any UAE window. The group also owns First Abu Dhabi Islamic Finance PJSC, a CBUAE-licensed Islamic finance company, and the same ISSC supervises the window, the finance company and the group's international Islamic operations.
Governance disclosure is the benchmark for this cluster. FAB's 2024 Corporate Governance Report names the ISSC for the May 2024-May 2027 term: Dr. Salim Al-Ali (chairman and executive member, UAE University, and a member or chairman of committees at ADCB, Al Hilal, Emirates NBD, Emirates Islamic, HSBC Bank Middle East, Standard Chartered and Ruya), Dr. Mohamad Akram Laldin (deputy chairman, ISRA Malaysia, also on RAKBANK's committee), Dr. Ahmed Rufai, and Dr. Khalid AlSaiari (from December 2024), plus two UAE-national trainee members, a scholar-pipeline practice worth noting. The committee met 13 times in 2024 with 100% attendance, and appointments carry Higher Shariah Authority approval. At product level, each retail page links its fatwa PDF: the practical customer-facing artifact most banks never provide.
The retail shelf prices aggressively for bundled customers. iSave and Mudarabah savings carry published pool financial disclosures with a 4% expected-profit campaign; home finance starts at 3.99% fixed for salary-transfer-plus-card customers with a green-home discount below that and FTV to 85%; car finance starts at 2.15% flat (about 4.1% reducing, converted on-page) with the same bundle condition; personal finance spans 4.79%-7.2% reducing via commodity or sukuk Murabaha up to AED 5 million, among the highest caps in the market. Worked examples showing total cost over the term are printed on the product pages. Unbundled customers pay visibly more, and FAB does not publish the full unbundled card, the one significant transparency gap.
Assessment: for a customer comfortable with the window model, FAB Islamic is the UAE's most complete package: best-documented Shariah governance, sharpest bundled pricing, largest infrastructure. The editorial caveat is structural, not operational: a window's Islamic deposits are segregated by framework and committee rather than by corporate licence, and customers for whom that distinction matters (it is why Qatar banned windows in 2011) should weigh SIB or DIB instead. Nothing in FAB's disclosure suggests the segregation is anything but rigorous; indeed its paperwork exceeds most full Islamic banks'.
Shariah Compliance Details
- ISSC term May 2024-May 2027: Dr. Salim Al-Ali (Chairman), Dr. Mohamad Akram Laldin (Deputy Chairman), Dr. Ahmed Rufai, Dr. Khalid AlSaiari; trainees Tariq Bujasaim and Mohamed AlMheiri; 13 meetings in 2024, 100% attendance (FAB Corporate Governance Report 2024, crawled 2026-08-05)
- Per-product fatwa PDFs on bankfab.com Islamic product pages (crawled 2026-08-05)
- Islamic Window Framework with segregated Shariah Control, Shariah Audit, Islamic Treasury, Islamic ALCO (governance report)
- Same ISSC supervises First Abu Dhabi Islamic Finance PJSC and international Islamic operations
- Appointments approved by the CBUAE Higher Shariah Authority
How FAB Islamic Compares
Among UAE windows, FAB Islamic leads on every governance and disclosure metric: Mashreq matches it on scholar seniority and fatwa publication but not on segregation architecture; ADCB and Saadiq trail on scholar disclosure; RAKislamic, CBD and NBF are smaller shelves. Against full Islamic banks, FAB's bundled pricing beats SIB's published rates for customers willing to bundle, while SIB wins for salary-independent customers. The honest framing: FAB Islamic versus DIB/SIB is a structure-versus-price-and-paperwork decision, and FAB has closed the paperwork gap entirely.
SIB offers a fully Islamic balance sheet with published rates and no bundling conditions; FAB Islamic beats it on price for bundled customers and on fatwa documentation.
Mashreq fields a more senior scholar bench and equally strong fatwa publication; FAB counters with deeper segregation architecture, sharper pricing and bigger infrastructure.
Group rivalry at window level: ADCB publishes tiered deposit rates FAB does not, while FAB publishes fatwas and scholar rosters ADCB does not.
Bottom Line
FAB Islamic is the best-documented and, for bundled customers, best-priced Islamic window in the UAE, with per-product fatwas and named-scholar governance that outclass most full Islamic banks. If the window structure itself does not trouble you, it belongs at the top of any UAE halal financing shortlist; if it does, take SIB's published rates instead.
Read full FAB Islamic reviewShariah Compliance & Oversight
FAB's ISSC for the May 2024 to May 2027 term: Dr. Salim Al-Ali (Chairman and Executive Member, who replaced Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar after his 10-year chairmanship), Dr. Mohamad Akram Laldin (Deputy Chairman, also on the Shari'ah Advisory Council of Bank Negara Malaysia), Dr. Ahmed Rufai, and Dr. Khalid Mohammed AlSaiari (appointed December 2024), with trainee members Tariq Saeed Bujasaim and Mohamed Eid AlMheiri. The ISSC held 13 meetings in 2024 with 100% attendance and supervises FAB's Islamic window, First Abu Dhabi Islamic Finance, and international Islamic operations. Appointments are endorsed by the Board and approved by the CBUAE Higher Shariah Authority and the general assembly (FAB Corporate Governance Report 2024, verified 2026-08-05). Product-level fatwas are published as PDFs on bankfab.com.
2026-08-05
Why It's Halal
The ISSC fatwa for Islamic Auto Finance (Murabahah) is published on the page: FAB Islamic buys the vehicle and resells it at a disclosed markup on deferred payment, fixing the customer's obligation at contract, with no interest accrual possible. FAB is one of the few UAE banks to print flat and reducing equivalents side by side plus a full worked example with total profit amount, which operationalizes the Shariah value of gharar-free price transparency. The window's segregated treasury funds the purchase leg Islamically, and the four-scholar ISSC supervises under CBUAE HSA standards.
Regional Availability
FAB Islamic serves all of the UAE
✓ Available nationwide including Sharjah
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