Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

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Chapter 7: Regarding Giving A Little More When Weighing And Weighing For A Fee

Shu'bah said

The memory of Sufyan was stronger than mine.

Chapter 10: Regarding One Who Delays Repayment Of A Debt

Narrated Abu Hurairah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Delay in payment (of debt) by a rich man is injunctive, but when one of you is referred to a wealthy man, he should accept the reference.

Chapter 11: Regarding Paying Off Debts Well

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah

The Prophet (ﷺ) owed me a debt and gave me something extra when he paid it.

Chapter 12: Regarding Exchange

Narrated 'Umar

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Gold for gold is interest unless both hand over on the spot ; wheat for wheat is interest unless both hand over on the spot ; dates for dates is interest unless both hand over on the spot ; barley for barley is interest unless both hand over on the spot.

Chapter 13: Regarding Jewelry On Swords Being Sold For Dirhams

Narrated Fudalah ibn Ubayd

The Prophet (ﷺ) was brought a necklace in which there were gold and pearls.

(The narrators AbuBakr and (Ahmad) Ibn Mani' said: The pearls were set with gold in it, and a man bought it for nine or seven dinars.)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: (It must not be sold) till the contents are considered separately. The narrator said: He returned it till the contents were considered separately. The narrator Ibn Asa said: By this I intended trade.

Abu Dawud said: The word hijarah (stone) was recorded in his note-book before, but he changed it and narrated tijarah (trade).

Chapter 14: Regarding Paying With Gold For A Price In Silver

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar

I used to sell camels at al-Baqi for dinars and take dirhams for them, and sell for dirhams and take dinars for them. I would take these for these and give these for these. I went to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) who was in the house of Hafsah. I said: Messenger of Allah , take it easy, I shall ask you (a question): I sell camels at al-Baqi'. I sell (them) for dinars and take dirhams and I sell for dirhams and take dinars. I take these for these, and give these for these. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) then said: There is no harm in taking them at the current rate so long as you do not separate leaving something to be settled.

Chapter 15: Regarding Animals For Animals On Credit

Narrated Samurah (ibn Jundub)

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade selling animals for animals when payment was to be made at a later date.

Chapter 18: Regarding Fresh Dates For Dried Dates

Zayd Abu 'Ayyash asked Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas about the sale of the soft and white kind of wheat for barley. Sa'd said

Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has also been transmitted by Isma'il b. Umayyah.

Narrated Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to sell fresh dates for dry dates when payment is made at a later date.

Abu Dawud said: The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Sa'd (b. Abi Waqqas) from the Prophet (ﷺ) through a different chain of narrators in a similar way.

Chapter 28: Regarding An Agent Doing Something Other Than What He Was Instructed To Do

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Urwat al-Bariqi through a different chain of narrators. The wordings of this version are different from those of the previous one.

Narrated Hakim ibn Hizam

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent with him a dinar to buy a sacrificial animal for him. He bought a sheep for a dinar, sold it for two and then returned and bought a sacrificial animal for a dinar for him and brought the (extra) dinar to the Prophet (ﷺ). The Prophet (ﷺ) gave it as alms (sadaqah) and invoked blessing on him in his trading.

Chapter 32: Regarding The Stern Warning Concerning That

Ayyub said

Ya'la b. Hakim wrote to me: I heard Sulaiman b. Yasar narrating the tradition to the same effect as narrated by 'Ubaid Allah and through the same chain.

AbuJa'far al-Khatmi said

My uncle sent me and his slave to Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab. We said to him, there is something which has reached us about sharecropping. He replied: Ibn Umar did not see any harm in it until a tradition reached him from Rafi' ibn Khadij. He then came to him and Rafi' told him that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to Banu Harithah and saw crop in the land of Zuhayr. He said: What an excellent crop of Zuhayr is! They said: It does not belong to Zuhayr. He asked: Is this not the land of Zuhayr? They said: Yes, but the crop belongs to so-and-so. He said: Take your crop and give him the wages. Rafi' said: We took our crop and gave him the wages. Sa'id (ibn al-Musayyab) said: Lend your brother or employ him for dirhams.

Chapter 36: Regarding Al-Khars (Estimation Of Fruits On Palm Trees)

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah

Ibn Rawahah assessed them (the amount of dates) at forty thousand wasqs, and when Ibn Rawahah gave them option, the Jews took the fruits in their possession and twenty thousand wasqs of dates were due from them.

Chapter 13: Regarding Jewelry On Swords Being Sold For Dirhams

Narrated Fudalah bin 'Ubaid

At the battle of Khaibar I bought a necklace in which there were gold and pearls for twelve dinars. I separated them and found that its worth was more than twelve dinars. So I mentioned that to the Prophet (ﷺ) who said: It must not be sold till the contents are considered separately.

Narrated Fudalah bin 'Ubaid

We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at the battle of Khaibar. We were selling to the Jews one uqiyah of gold for one dinar. The narrators other than Qutaibah said: "for two or three dinars." Then both the versions agreed. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Do not sell gold except with equal weight.

Chapter 16: Concession Allowing That

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commanded him to equip an army, but the camels were insufficient. So he commanded him to keep back the young camels of sadaqah, and he was taking a camel to be replaced by two when the camels of sadaqah came.

Chapter 17: If That Is Hand To Hand

Narrated Jabir

The Prophet (ﷺ) bought a slave for two slaves.

Chapter 21: Regarding Estimating For 'Araya

Narrated Abu Hurairah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave license regarding the sale of 'araya when the amount was less then five wasqs or five wasqs. Dawud b. al-Husain was doubtful.

Abu Dawud said: The tradition by Jabir indicates up to four wasqs.

Chapter 22: Regarding The Explanation Of 'Araya

'Abd Rabbihi b. Sa'id al-Ansari said

'Ariyyah means that a man gives another man a palm-tree on loan, or it means that reserves one or two palm-trees from his property for his personal use, then he sells for dried dates.