What Is Meant Here
The point is not that money by itself grants its possessor a fixed qiwāmah, but that possessing money or spending it is presented as one of the factors of qiwāmah. This attribution still needs to be checked against the original episode, because it is preserved here as a paraphrase rather than a verbatim quotation.
What Is Attributed to Shahrur
The material extracted from episode 29 records the following attribution: possessing money or spending it is “one of the reasons for qiwāmah, not a sole or absolute reason.” This is the limit of the attribution supported by the available evidence.
Atlas Explanation
Since the wording denies that spending is a sole or absolute reason, it cannot be turned into a rule saying that the spender is always the one exercising qiwāmah or that money alone is sufficient. This explains the limits of the statement; it does not add a new, undocumented condition.
Conclusion
The provisional conclusion is that money or spending is presented as a non-exclusive factor in this claim about qiwāmah. This record alone cannot support a complete definition of qiwāmah.
Open Question
Does the original episode or Towards New Foundations for Islamic Jurisprudence establish that administrative competence is another factor in qiwāmah, and what exact wording clarifies its relationship to spending? A verbatim citation is needed to answer this.