Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

كتاب الإجارة

Chapter 26: Regarding Withholding Water

The tradition mentioned above has also been related by al-'Amash to the same effect through a different chain of narrators. This version adds

He said about (selling) the goods: I swear by Allah, I was given (the price) so and so for it. The other man considered it to be correct and bought it.

Narrated Buhaisah

On the authority of her father: My father asked the Prophet (ﷺ) for permission (to kiss his body). (When he was given permission), lifting his shirt he approached his body, and began to kiss and stick to him. He then asked: Prophet of Allah, what is the thing withholding of which is not lawful ? He replied: Water. He asked: Prophet of Allah, what is the thing withholding of which is not lawful ? He replied: Salt. He again asked: Prophet of Allah, what is the thing withholding of which is not lawful ? He said: That you do a good work is better for you.

Narrated A man

A man from the immigrants of the Companions of the Prophet (ﷺ) said: I participated in battle three times along with the Prophet (ﷺ). I heard him say: Muslims have common share in three (things). grass, water and fire.

Chapter 27: Regarding Selling Surplus Water

Narrated Iyas ibn Abd

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the sale of excess water.

Chapter 28: Regarding The Price Of Cats

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade payment for dog and cat.

Narrated Jabir

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade payment for cat.

Chapter 29: Regarding The Price Of Dogs

Narrated Abu Mas'ud

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the price paid for a dog, the hire paid to prostitute, and the gift given to a soothsayer.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the price paid for a dog; if someone comes to ask for the price of a dog, fill his hand-palm with dust.

Narrated Abu Juhaifah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)forbade the price paid for a dog.

Narrated AbuHurayrah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The price paid for a dog, the price given to a soothsayer, and the hire paid to a prostitute are not lawful.

Chapter 30: Regarding The Price Of Khamr And Deat Meat

Narrated Abu Hurairah

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Allah forbade wine and the price paid for it, and forbade dead meat and the price paid for it, and forbade swine and the price paid for it.

Narrated Jabir bin ‘Abdullah

That he heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say in the year of the Conquest when he was in Mecca: Allah has forbidden the sale of wine, animals which have dead natural death, swine and idols. He was asked: Messenger of Allah, what do you think of the fat of animals which had died a natural death, for it was used for caulking ships, greasing skins, and making oil for lamps? He replies: No, it is forbidden. Thereafter, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: May Allah curse the Jews! When Allah declared the fat of such animals lawful, they melted it, then sold it, and enjoyed the price they received.

Yazid b. Abi Habib said

Jabir wrote to me a similar tradition. But he did not say in this version "It is forbidden."

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas

I saw the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sitting neat the Black stone (or at a corner of the Ka'bah). He said: He (the Prophet) raised his eyes towards the heaven, and laughed, and he said: May Allah curse the Jews! He said this three times. Allah declared unlawful for them the fats (of the animals which died a natural death); they sold them and they enjoyed the price they received for them. When Allah declared eating of thing forbidden for the people, He declares it price also forbidden for them. The version of Khalid b. 'Abd Allah al-Tahhan does not have the words "I saw". It has: "May Allah destroy the Jews!"

Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who sold wine should shear the flesh of swine.

Narrated 'Aishah

When the last verses of Surat al-Baqarah were revealed, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came out and recited them to us and siad: Trading in wine has been forbidden.

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by al-A'mash to the same effect through a different chain of narrators. This version adds

"The last verses about usury."

Chapter 31: Regarding Selling Food Before Taking Possession Of It

Narrated Ibn 'Umar

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: If anyone buys grain, he must not sell it till receives it in full.

Narrated Ibn 'Umar

During the time of Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) we used to buy grain, and he sent a man to us who ordered us to move it from the spot where we had bought it to some other place, before we sold it without weighing or measuring it.

Ibn 'Umar said

They (the people) used to buy grain in the upper part of the market in the same spot without measuring or weighing it. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade them to sell it there before removing it.