The Book of Transactions

كتاب البيوع

Chapter 5: The prohibition of intercepting traders

This hadith has been reported on the authority of 'Ubaidullah.

Abdullah (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying

Do not meet the traders (in the way).

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) as saying

Do not meet the merchandise (in the way).

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

Do not meet the merchant in the way and enter into business transaction with him, and whoever meets him and buys from him (and in case it is done, see) that when the owner of (merchandise) comes into the market (and finds that he has been paid less price) he has the option (to declare the transaction null and void).

Chapter 6: The prohibition of the town-dweller selling on behalf of a bedouin

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported it directly from Allah's Apostle (ﷺ)

The townsman'should not sell for a man from the desert (with a view to taking advantage of his ignorance of the market conditions of the city). And Zuhair reported from the Prophet (ﷺ) that he forbade the townsman to sell on behalf of the man from the desert.

Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The riders (carrying merchandise) should not be met in the way, and townsman should not sell for a man of the desert. The narrator reported. I said to Ibn 'Abbas: What do these words really imply-" The townsman for the man of the desert"? He said: That he should work as a broker on his behalf.

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

The townsman should not sell for a man from the desert, leave the people alone, Allah will give them provision from one another. Yahya reported it with a slight change of words.

Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported a similar hadith from Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) through another chain of transmitters.

Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) reported

We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert, even if he is his brother or father.

Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) said

We were forbidden that a townsman should sell for a man of the desert.

Chapter 7: Ruling on selling Al-Musarrah (An animal in whose udder milk has been allowed to accumulate)

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be'upon him) as saying

He who bought a goat having its udder tied up should go back with it, milk it, and, if he is satisfied with its milk, he should retair it, otherwise he should return it along with a sa' of dates.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

He who buys a goat with its udder tied up has the option to retain the goat if he so desires or return it within three days, and in case he returns it he should do so along with a sa' of dates.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) as saying

lie who buys a goat having its udder tied up has the option to return it within three days. If he returns it he should pay a sa' of dates. Wheat is not essential.

Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

He who buys a goat having its udder tied up has two courses left for him. He may retain it, and if he desires may return it along with a sa' of dates and not wheat.

Ayyub narrated with the same chain of transmitters but with this change of words

" He who buys a goat has the option...."

Hammam b. Munabbih said

Out of the ahadith which Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported to us from Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) one is this that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: If one among you buys a she-camel having its udder tied up he has the two options for him after milking it either (to retain it) or return it with a sa' of dates.

Chapter 8: It is invalid to sell goods before taking possession of them

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

He who buys foodgrain should not sell it until he has taken possession of it.

A hadith like this has been narrated through the same chain of transmitters.

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

He who buys food-rain should not sell it until he has taken possession of it. Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) said: I regard everything like food (so far as this principle is concerned).

Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying

He who buys foodgrain should not sell it, until he has weighed it (and then taken possession of it). I (Tawus) said to Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with them): Why is it so? Thereupon he said: Don't you see that they (the people) sell foodgrains against gold for the stipulated time. Abu Kuraib did not make any mention of the stipulated time.