Sales and Trade

كتاب البيوع

Chapter 52: What is considered preferable regarding measuring

Narrated Al-Miqdam bin Ma'diyakrib

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Measure your foodstuff and you will be blessed."

Chapter 53: Allah's Blessing in the Sa' and Mudd of the Prophet saws

In it 'Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrated from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him).
Narrated `Abdullah bin Zaid

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The Prophet (ﷺ) Abraham made Mecca a sanctuary, and asked for Allah's blessing in it. I made Medina a sanctuary as Abraham made Mecca a sanctuary and I asked for Allah's Blessing in its measures the Mudd and the Sa as Abraham did for Mecca.

Narrated Anas bin Malik

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "O Allah bestow your blessings on their measures, bless their Mudd and Sa." The Prophet (ﷺ) meant the people of Medina.

Chapter 54: The selling of the foodstuff and its storage

Narrated Salim

that his father said. "I saw those, who used to buy foodstuff without measuring or weighing in the life time of the Prophet (ﷺ) being punished if they sold it before carrying it to their own houses."

Narrated Tawus

Ibn `Abbas said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the selling of foodstuff before its measuring and transferring into one's possession." I asked Ibn `Abbas, "How is that?" Ibn `Abbas replied, "It will be just like selling money for money, as the foodstuff has not been handed over to the first purchaser who is the present seller."

Narrated Ibn `Umar

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who buys foodstuff should not sell it till he has received it."

Narrated Az-Zuhri from Malik bin Aus

That the latter said, "Who has change?" Talha said, "I (will have change) when our storekeeper comes from the forest." Malik bin Aus narrated from `Umar bin Al-Khattab: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The bartering of gold for gold is Riba (usury), except if it is from hand to hand and equal in amount, and wheat grain for wheat grain is usury except if it is form hand to hand and equal in amount, and dates for dates is usury except if it is from hand to hand and equal in amount, and barley for barley is usury except if it is from hand to hand and equal in amount."

Chapter 55: The selling of the foodstuff before receiving it

Narrated Ibn `Abbas

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the selling of foodstuff before receiving it. I consider that all types of sellings should be done similarly.

Narrated Ibn `Umar

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The buyer of foodstuff should not sell it before it has been measured for him." Isma`il narrated instead, "He should not sell it before receiving it."

Chapter 56: Whoever bought foodstuff without measuring or weighing should not sell before bringing into house

Narrated Ibn `Umar

I saw the people buy foodstuff randomly (i.e. blindly without measuring it) in the lifetime of Allah's Apostle and they were punished (by beating), if they tried to sell it before carrying it to their own houses.

Chapter 57: If somebody buys some goods or (an) animal and let it with the seller, or it dies before he takes it into his possession

Ibn 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said that what I realized was the transaction alive as a whole, for it is from the purchaser.
Narrated Aisha

Rarely did the Prophet (ﷺ) fail to visit Abu Bakr's house everyday, either in the morning or in the evening. When the permission for migration to Medina was granted, all of a sudden the Prophet (ﷺ) came to us at noon and Abu Bakr was informed, who said, "Certainly the Prophet (ﷺ) has come for some urgent matter." The Prophet (ﷺ) said to Abu Bark, when the latter entered "Let nobody stay in your home." Abu Bakr said, "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! There are only my two daughters (namely `Aisha and Asma') present." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I feel (am informed) that I have been granted the permission for migration." Abu Bakr said, "I will accompany you, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "You will accompany me." Abu Bakr then said "O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)! I have two she-camels I have prepared specially for migration, so I offer you one of them. The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I have accepted it on the condition that I will pay its price."

Chapter 58: Not to cancel a bargain already agreed upon

Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do not urge somebody to return what he has already bought (i.e. in optional sale) from another seller so as to sell him your own goods."

Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the selling of things by a town dweller on behalf of a desert dweller; and similarly Najsh was forbidden. And one should not urge somebody to return the goods to the seller so as to sell him his own goods; nor should one demand the hand of a girl who has already been engaged to someone else; and a woman should not try to cause some other woman to be divorced in order to take her place.

Chapter 59: Selling by auction

And he said that I have left people, not to see a goodness by selling the sheep in a more more.
Narrated Jabir bin `Abdullah

A man decided that a slave of his would be manumitted after his death and later on he was in need of money, so the Prophet (ﷺ) took the slave and said, "Who will buy this slave from me?" Nu'aim bin `Abdullah bought him for such and such price and the Prophet (ﷺ) gave him the slave.

Chapter 60: An-Naish

Whoever said that it is not permissible to sell. Ibn Abi Awfa al-Najish said, "I will eat a traitorous usury." It is a false deception, not resolved. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah Allaah be upon him) said: "Deception is in Hell, and whoever does something that is not our command is a response."
Narrated Ibn `Umar

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade Najsh.

Chapter 61: Al-Gharar and Habal-il-Habala

Narrated `Abdullah bin `Umar

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the sale called 'Habal-al-Habala which was a kind of sale practiced in the Pre- Islamic Period of ignorance. One would pay the price of a she-camel which was not born yet would be born by the immediate offspring of an extant she-camel.

Chapter 62: Al-Limas or Mulamasa

Anas said that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him.
Narrated Abu Sa`id

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade the selling by Munabadha, i.e. to sell one's garment by casting it to the buyer not allowing him to examine or see it. Similarly he forbade the selling by Mulamasa. Mulamasa is to buy a garment, for example, by merely touching it, not looking at it.

Narrated Abu Huraira

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade two kinds of dressing; (one of them) is to sit with one's legs drawn up while wrapped in one garment. (The other) is to lift that garment on one's shoulders. And also forbade two kinds of sale: Al-Limais and An-Nibadh.

Chapter 63: Munabadha

Anas said that the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him.
Narrated Abu Huraira

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) forbade selling by Mulamasa and Munabadha.

Narrated Abu Sa`id

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade two kinds of dresses and two kinds of sale, i.e., Mulamasa and Munabadha.