Business Transactions & Trade

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade sale of fruits for a number of years. One of the two narrators (Abu al-Zubair and Sa'id b. Mina') mentioned the words "sale for years" (bai' al-sinin instead of al-mu'awamah).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade the type of sale which involves risk (or uncertainty) and a transaction determined by throwing stones.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) forbade two types of business transactions and two ways of dressing. The two types of business transactions are mulamasah and munabadhah. As regards the two ways of dressing, they are the wrapping of the samma', and that...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

"Wearing the samma' means that a man puts his garment over his left shoulder and keeps his right side uncovered. Munabadhah means that a man says (to another): If I throw this garment to you, the sale will be certain....

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Abu Said al-Khudri through a different chain of narrators from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) to the same effect as narrated by both Sufyan and 'Abd al-Razzaq.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the transaction called habal al-habalah.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

Habal al-habalah means that a she-camel delivers an offspring and then the offspring which it delivers becomes pregnant.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

A time is certainly coming to mankind when people will bite each other and a rich man will hold fast, what he has in his possession (i.e. his property), though he was not commanded for that. Allah, Most High, said:...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) having said: Allah, Most High, says: "I make a third with two partners as long as one of them does not cheat the other, but when he cheats him, I depart from them."

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) gave him a dinar to buy a sacrificial animal or a sheep. He bought two sheep, sold one of them for a dinar, and brought him a sheep and dinar. So he invoked a blessing on him...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Urwat al-Bariqi through a different chain of narrators. The wordings of this version are different from those of the previous one.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent with him a dinar to buy a sacrificial animal for him. He bought a sheep for a dinar, sold it for two and then returned and bought a sacrificial animal for a dinar for...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If any of you can become like the man who had a faraq of rice, he should become like him. They (the people) asked: Who is the man who had a faraq...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I Ammar, and Sa'd became partners in what we would receive on the day of Badr. Sa'd then brought two prisoners, but I and Ammar did not bring anything.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I heard Ibn Umar say: We did not see any harm in sharecropping till I heard Rafi' ibn Khadij say: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) has forbidden it. So I mentioned it to Tawus. He said: Ibn Abbas told me...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

That Zayd ibn Thabit said: May Allah forgive Rafi' ibn Khadij. I swear by Allah, I have more knowledge of Hadith than him. Two persons of the Ansar (according to the version of Musaddad) came to him who were disputing...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

We used to lease land for what grew by the streamlets and for what was watered from them. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade us to do that, and commanded us to lease if for gold or silver.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I asked Rafi' b. Khadij about the lease of land for gold and silver (i.e. for dinars and dirhams). There is no harm in it, for the people used to let out land in the time of the Messenger of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the leasing of land. I asked: (Did he forbid) for gold and silver (i.e. dinars and dirhams)? He replied: If it is against gold and silver, then there is no harm in it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

Ibn 'Umar used to let out his land till it reached him that Rafi' b. Khadij al-Ansari narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade let out land. So 'Abd Allah (b. 'Umar) said: Ibn Khadij, what do you narrate...