Trade dealings, lawful and forbidden sales, and commercial ethics.
138 · Hadith
Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:The riders (carrying merchandise) should not be met in the way, and townsman should not sell for a man of the desert. The narrator reported. I said to Ibn 'Abbas: What do these words really imply-" The townsman for the man of the desert"? He said: That he should work as a broker on his behalf
Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:The townsman should not sell for a man from the desert, leave the people alone, Allah will give them provision from one another. Yahya reported it with a slight change of words
Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) reported:We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert, even if he is his brother or father
Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) said:We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be'upon him) as saying:He who bought a goat having its udder tied up should go back with it, milk it, and, if he is satisfied with its milk, he should retair it, otherwise he should return it along with a sa' of dates
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who buys a goat with its udder tied up has the option to retain the goat if he so desires or return it within three days, and in case he returns it he should do so along with a sa' of dates
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying:lie who buys a goat having its udder tied up has the option to return it within three days. If he returns it he should pay a sa' of dates. Wheat is not essential
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who buys a goat having its udder tied up has two courses left for him. He may retain it, and if he desires may return it along with a sa' of dates and not wheat
Ayyub narrated with the same chain of transmitters but with this change of words:" He who buys a goat has the option
Hammam b. Munabbih said:Out of the ahadith which Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported to us from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) one is this that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If one among you buys a she-camel having its udder tied up he has the two options for him after milking it either (to retain it) or return it with a sa' of dates
Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who buys foodgrain should not sell it until he has taken possession of it
Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who buys food-rain should not sell it until he has taken possession of it. Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) said: I regard everything like food (so far as this principle is concerned)
Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who buys foodgrain should not sell it until he has taken full possession of it
Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported:We used to buy foodgrains during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ). He (the Holy Prophet) would then send to us one who commanded us to take them (the foodgrains) to a place other than the one where we had bought them before we sold it
Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who bought foodgrain should not sell it until he had taken full possession of it (after measuring it)
Ibn 'Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying,:He who bought foodgrain should not sell it until he had taken possession of it
Salim b. 'Abdullah (Allah be pleased with them) reported his father havingsaid this:I saw people being beaten during the lifetime of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) in case they bought the foodgrain in bulk, and then sold them at that spot before taking it to their places. This hadith is narrated on the authority of 'Ubaidullah b. Abdullah b. 'Umar through another chain of transmitters (and the words are):" His father (Ibn 'Umar) used to buy foodgrains in bulk and then carried them to his people
Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:He who bought foodgrain should not sell it until he had measured it. In the narration of Abu Bakr there the word is Ibta' instead of Ishtara
Abu Huraira (Allah be please with him) is reported to have said to Marwan:Have you made lawful the transactions involving interest? Thereupon Marwan said: I have not done that. Thereupon Abu Huraira (ﷺ) said: You have made lawful the transactions with the help of documents only, whereas Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the transaction of foodgrains until full possession is taken of them. Marwan then addressed the people and forbade them to enter into such transactions (as are done with the help of documents). Sulaiman said: I saw the sentinels snatching (these documents) from the people
Jabir b. Abdullah (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying:When you purchase foodgrains, do not sell them until you have taken possession of them