Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2269
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحٍ، أَنْبَأَنَا اللَّيْثُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي زَيْدُ بْنُ ثَابِتٍ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ أَرْخَصَ فِي بَيْعِ الْعَرِيَّةِ بِخَرْصِهَا تَمْرًا . قَالَ يَحْيَى الْعَرِيَّةُ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَ الرَّجُلُ ثَمَرَ النَّخَلاَتِ بِطَعَامِ أَهْلِهِ رُطَبًا بِخَرْصِهَا تَمْرًا .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar said: Zayd ibn Thabit told me that the Messenger of Allah granted a concession for selling an ʿariyya, exchanging it for dates according to its estimated yield. Yahya said: An ʿariyya is when a man buys the fresh dates of palm trees for his household’s food, in exchange for dried dates in a quantity estimated to equal them.
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The report explains an ʿariyya transaction as an exchange of fresh dates from palm trees for dried dates, with the amount estimated by its expected yield.
قَالَ يَحْيَى الْعَرِيَّةُ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَ الرَّجُلُ ثَمَرَ النَّخَلاَتِ بِطَعَامِ أَهْلِهِ رُطَبًا بِخَرْصِهَا تَمْرًا .
The phrase ‘the food of his household’ is connected to fresh dates by an elliptical construction; the intended exchange is clarified by the following estimate in dried dates.
Does the gloss describe buying the fresh date yield for household consumption against an estimated quantity of dried dates, as translated here?