Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 2281
حَدَّثَنَا يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ حُمَيْدِ بْنِ كَاسِبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا الْوَلِيدُ بْنُ مُسْلِمٍ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ حَمْزَةَ بْنِ يُوسُفَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلاَمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلاَمٍ، قَالَ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ فَقَالَ إِنَّ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ أَسْلَمُوا - لِقَوْمٍ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ - وَإِنَّهُمْ قَدْ جَاعُوا فَأَخَافُ أَنْ يَرْتَدُّوا . فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " مَنْ عِنْدَهُ " . فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ عِنْدِي كَذَا وَكَذَا - لِشَىْءٍ قَدْ سَمَّاهُ أُرَاهُ قَالَ ثَلاَثُمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ بِسِعْرِ كَذَا وَكَذَا مِنْ حَائِطِ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ . فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " بِسِعْرِ كَذَا وَكَذَا إِلَى أَجَلِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَلَيْسَ مِنْ حَائِطِ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
ʿAbdullah ibn Salam said: A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘The sons of so-and-so—a group of Jews—have become Muslims, and they are hungry. I fear they may apostatize.’ The Prophet asked, ‘Who has something available?’ A Jewish man said, ‘I have such-and-such’—the narrator says, ‘about something he named; I think he said three hundred dinars’—‘at such-and-such a price, to be supplied from the orchard of the sons of so-and-so.’ The Messenger of Allah said, ‘At such-and-such a price, for such-and-such a term, but not from the orchard of the sons of so-and-so.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The narrator explicitly marks the quantity as uncertain (‘I think he said three hundred dinars’). The unspecified price and term are left as such. The source restriction against delivery from the named orchard is retained.
فَقَالَ رَجُلٌ مِنَ الْيَهُودِ عِنْدِي كَذَا وَكَذَا - لِشَىْءٍ قَدْ سَمَّاهُ أُرَاهُ قَالَ ثَلاَثُمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ بِسِعْرِ كَذَا وَكَذَا مِنْ حَائِطِ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ .
The narrator is unsure of the named amount and says he thinks it was three hundred dinars; what commodity or amount was offered is not otherwise explicit.
What exactly did the Jewish man offer, and was the amount three hundred dinars?
فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " بِسِعْرِ كَذَا وَكَذَا إِلَى أَجَلِ كَذَا وَكَذَا وَلَيْسَ مِنْ حَائِطِ بَنِي فُلاَنٍ " .
The Prophet’s reply specifies an unspecified price and term and excludes supply from the named orchard, without elaborating the commodity or quantity.
Does the response refer to a forward sale with a specified price and term but an alternative source of delivery?