Sales and Trade

كتاب البيوع

Chapter 13: Whoever liked to expand in his sustenance

Narrated Anas bin Malik

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying, "whoever desires an expansion in his sustenance and age, should keep good relations with his Kith and kin."

Chapter 14: The Prophet saws purchased (foodgrains) on credit

Narrated `Aisha

The Prophet (ﷺ) purchased food grains from a Jew on credit and mortgaged his iron armor to him.

Narrated Qatada

Anas went to the Prophet (ﷺ) with barley bread having some dissolved fat on it. The Prophet (ﷺ) had mortgaged his armor to a Jew in Medina and took from him some barley for his family. Anas heard him saying, "The household of Muhammad did not possess even a single Sa of wheat or food grains for the evening meal, although he has nine wives to look after." (See Hadith No. 685)

Chapter 15: The earnings of a person and his manual labour

Narrated `Aisha

When Abu Bakr As-Siddiq was chosen Caliph, he said, "My people know that my profession was not incapable of providing substance to my family. And as I will be busy serving the Muslim nation, my family will eat from the National Treasury of Muslims, and I will practice the profession of serving the Muslims."

Narrated Aisha

The companions of Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to practice manual labor, so their sweat used to smell, and they were advised to take a bath.

Narrated Al-Miqdam

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Nobody has ever eaten a better meal than that which one has earned by working with one's own hands. The Prophet (ﷺ) of Allah, David used to eat from the earnings of his manual labor."

Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The Prophet (ﷺ) David used not to eat except from the earnings of his manual labor."

Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "No doubt, it isbetter for any one of you to cut a bundle ofwood and carry it over his back rather than toask someone who may or may not givehim."

Narrated Az-Zubair bin Al-Awwam

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "One would rather take a rope and cut wood and carry it than ask others).

Chapter 16: One should be lenient and generous in bargaining

Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "May Allah's mercy be on him who is lenient in his buying, selling, and in demanding back his money."

Chapter 17: Whoever gave time to a rich person to pay at his convenience

Narrated Hudhaifa

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Before your time the angels received the soul of a man and asked him, 'Did you do any good deeds (in your life)?' He replied, 'I used to order my employees to grant time to the rich person to pay his debts at his convenience.' So Allah said to the angels; "Excuse him." Rabi said that (the dead man said), 'I used to be easy to the rich and grant time to the poor.' Or, in another narration, 'grant time to the well-off and forgive the needy,' or, 'accept from the well-off and forgive the needy.'

Chapter 18: A person in hard circumstances to pay debt (when able to repay)

Narrated Abu Huraira

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "There was a merchant who used to lend the people, and whenever his debtor was in straitened circumstances, he would say to his employees, 'Forgive him so that Allah may forgive us.' So, Allah forgave him."

Chapter 19: To explain the good and bad points of the transaction

And he remembers the enemy, the son of Khalid, who said to me, the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him The Muslim Muslim, there is no disease, no malice, nor prestigious ». The pioneer of the adulterers, the steel, the struggle, and the coffee said. It was said to Abraham, that some of the two people are called Aryan Kharasan and Sajasan, and he says, "It is more than two horses. He thought of it as a severe. Aqabah ibn Amir said that it is not permissible for a person who sells a boil, he knows that it is a disease, except that I tell it.
Narrated Hakim bin Hizam

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The seller and the buyer have the right to keep or return goods as long as they have not parted or till they part; and if both the parties spoke the truth and described the defects and qualities (of the goods), then they would be blessed in their transaction, and if they told lies or hid something, then the blessings of their transaction would be lost."

Chapter 20: Selling of mixed dates

Narrated Abu Sa`id

We used to be given mixed dates (from the booty) and used to sell (barter) two Sas of those dates) for one Sa (of good dates). The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to us), "No (bartering of) two Sas for one Sa nor two Dirhams for one Dirham is permissible", (as that is a kind of usury). (See Hadith No. 405).

Chapter 21: What is said about the meat seller and the butcher

Narrated Abu Mas`ud

An Ansari man, called Abu Shu'aib, came and told his butcher slave, "Prepare meals sufficient for five persons, for I want to invite the Prophet (ﷺ) along with four other persons as I saw signs of hunger on his face." Abu Shu'aib invited them and another person came along with them. The Prophet (ﷺ) said (to Abu Shu'aib), This man followed us, so if you allow him, he will join us, and if you want him to return, he will go back." Abu Shu'aib said, "No, I have allowed him (i.e. he, too, is welcomed to the meal).

Chapter 22: The loss (of blessings) if one tells lies or hides the facts in a deal

Narrated Hakim bin Hizam

The Prophet (ﷺ) aid, "The buyer and the seller have the option to cancel or to confirm the deal, as long as they have not parted or till they part, and if they spoke the truth and told each other the defects of the things, then blessings would be in their deal, and if they hid something and told lies, the blessing of the deal would be lost."

Chapter 23: The Statement of Allah Ta'ala: "... Eat not Riba doubled and multiplied."

Narrated Abu Hurairah (ra)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said "Certainly a time will come when people will not bother to know from where they earned the money, by lawful means or unlawful means." (See Hadith no. 2050)

Chapter 24: The sin of Riba, its witness and its writer

They said that selling is like RIBA, and Allah has resolved to sell, and he has forbidden RIBA. whoever receives a sermon from his Lord, and it is finished, he has what was foregoing and ordered to Allah, and whoever returns, those who are owners of the fire therein are immortal.
Narrated Aisha

When the last Verses of Surat al- Baqara were revealed, the Prophet (ﷺ) recited them in the mosque and proclaimed the trade of alcohol as illegal.

Narrated Samura bin Jundab

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "This night I dreamt that two men came and took me to a Holy land whence we proceeded on till we reached a river of blood, where a man was standing, and on its bank was standing another man with stones in his hands. The man in the middle of the river tried to come out, but the other threw a stone in his mouth and forced him to go back to his original place. So, whenever he tried to come out, the other man would throw a stone in his mouth and force him to go back to his former place. I asked, 'Who is this?' I was told, 'The person in the river was a Riba-eater."

Chapter 25: The Riba-giver

For the words of the Almighty: {O you who believe, fear Allah and sow what is left of usury, if you are believers, and if you do not, then authorize a war from Allah and His Messenger, and if you repent, you have the heads of your wealth, do not oppress or oppress, and if it is difficult, then look at Maysara, and to believe is better for you if you know and fear a day when you return to Allah, and then every soul that you have earned dies, and they do not Ibn 'Abbas said this is the last verse revealed to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).
Narrated `Aun bin Abu Juhaifa

My father bought a slave who practiced the profession of cupping. (My father broke the slave's instruments of cupping). I asked my father why he had done so. He replied, "The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the acceptance of the price of a dog or blood, and also forbade the profession of tattooing, getting tattooed and receiving or giving Riba, (usury), and cursed the picture-makers."