“Abdullah bin Shaddad and Abu Barzah had a dispute about paying in advance. They sent me to ‘Abdullah bin Abu Awfa to ask him about it. He said: ‘We used to make payments in advance at the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and the time of Abu Bakr and ‘Umar, for wheat, barley, […]
“There will come a time when there will be no one left who does not consume usury (interest), and whoever does not consume it will nevertheless be affected by it.”‘
“There is no one who deals in usury a great deal (to increase his wealth) but he will end up with little (i.e., his wealth will be decreased).”
“When the Prophet (ﷺ) came (to Al-Madinah), they used to pay in advance for dates, two or three years in advance. He said: ‘Whoever pays in advance for dates, let him pay for a known amount or a known weight, to be delivered at a known time.’”
‘ “‘On the night in which I was taken on the Night Journey (Al-Isra’), I came to people whose stomachs were like houses, in which there were snakes that could be seen from outside their stomachs. I said: ‘Who are these, O Jibra’il?’ He said: ‘They are the ones who consumed usury.”‘
“There are seventy degrees of usury, the least of which is equivalent to a man having intercourse with his mother.”
“There are seventy-three degrees of usury.”
“The last thing to be revealed was the Verse on usury but the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) died before he had explained it to us. So give up usury (interest) and doubtful things.”
Xthe Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) cursed the one who consumes usury, the one who pays it, those who witness it and the one who writes it down.
“Zaid bin Thabit narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) gave a concession regarding the sale of ‘Araya.”