Business Transactions & Trade

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I heard Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Swearing produces a ready sale for a commodity but blots out the blessing. The narrator Ibn al-Sarh said: "for earning". He also narrated this tradition from Sa'id b. al-Musayyab on the authority of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I and Makhrafah al-Abdi imported some garments from Hajar, and brought them to Mecca. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to us walking, and after he had bargained with us for some trousers, we sold them to him. There was...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

Abu Safwan said: I came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at Mecca before his immigration. He then narrated the rest of the tradition, but he did not mention the words "who was weighing for payment". Abu Dawud sad: Qais...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I heard my father say: A man said to Shu'bah: Sufyan opposed you (i.e. narrated a tradition which differs from your version). He replied: You racked my mind. I have been told that Yahya b. Ma'in said: If anyone opposes...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The memory of Sufyan was stronger than mine.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: (The standard) weight is the weight of the people of Mecca, and the (standard) measure is the measure of the people of Medina. Abu Dawud said: Al-Firyabi and Abu Ahmad have also transmitted from Sufyan in...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) addressed us and said: Is here any one of such and such tribe present? But no one replied. He again asked: Is here any one of such and such tribe present? But no one replied....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: After the grave sins which Allah has prohibited the greatest sin is that a man dies while he has debt due from him and does not leave anything to pay it off, and meets Him with...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would not say funeral prayer over a person who died while the debt was due from him. A dead Muslim was brought to him and he asked: Is there any debt due from him? They...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

"He (the Prophet) purchased a calf from a caravan, but he had no money with him. He then sold it with some profit and gave the profit in charity to the poor and widows of Banu 'Abd al-Muttalib. He then...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Delay in payment (of debt) by a rich man is injunctive, but when one of you is referred to a wealthy man, he should accept the reference.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) borrowed a young camel, and when the camels of the sadaqah (alms) came to him, he ordered me to pay the man his young camel. I said: I find only an excellent camel in its...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) owed me a debt and gave me something extra when he paid it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) as saying: Gold for gold is interest unless both hand over on the spot ; wheat for wheat is interest unless both hand over on the spot ; dates for dates is interest unless both...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Gold is to be paid for with gold, raw and coined, silver with silver, raw and coined (in equal weight), wheat with wheat in equal measure, barley with barley in equal measure, dates with...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

"He said: If these classes differ, sell as you wish if payment is made on the spot."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) was brought a necklace in which there were gold and pearls. (The narrators AbuBakr and (Ahmad) Ibn Mani' said: The pearls were set with gold in it, and a man bought it for nine or seven dinars.)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

At the battle of Khaibar I bought a necklace in which there were gold and pearls for twelve dinars. I separated them and found that its worth was more than twelve dinars. So I mentioned that to the Prophet (ﷺ)...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

We were with the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) at the battle of Khaibar. We were selling to the Jews one uqiyah of gold for one dinar. The narrators other than Qutaibah said: "for two or three dinars." Then both the...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I used to sell camels at al-Baqi for dinars and take dirhams for them, and sell for dirhams and take dinars for them. I would take these for these and give these for these. I went to the Messenger of...