Business Transactions & Trade

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: If any of you does not leave mukhabarah, he should take notice of war from Allah and His Apostle (ﷺ).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade mukhabarah. I asked: What is mukhabarah ? He replied: That you have the land (for cultivation) for half, a third, or a quarter (of the produce).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) made an agreement with the people of Khaibar to work and cultivate in return for half of the fruits or produce.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) handed over the Jews of Khaibar the palm trees and the land of Khaibar on condition that they should employ what belonged to them in working on them, and that he should have half of the fruits.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) conquered Khaibar, and stipulated that all the land, gold and silver would belong to him. The people of Khaibar said: we know the land more than you ; so give it to us on condition...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

He said: He assessed, and after the words of kull safara' wa baida', he said: that is, gold and silver will belong to him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

When the Prophet (ﷺ) conquered Khaibar. He then narrated it like the tradition of Zaid (b. Abu al-Zarqa'). This version has: He then assessed the produce of the palm-trees and said: I take the job of picking the fruit myself,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

The Prophet (ﷺ) used to send Abdullah ibn Rawahah (to Khaybar), and he would assess the amount of dates when they began to ripen before they were eaten (by the Jews). He would then give choice to the Jews that...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

When Allah bestowed Khaybar on His Prophet (ﷺ) as fay' (as a result of conquest without fighting), the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) allowed (them) to remain there as they were before, and apportioned it between him and them. He then...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Commercial Transactions (Kitab Al-Buyu)

Ibn Rawahah assessed them (the amount of dates) at forty thousand wasqs, and when Ibn Rawahah gave them option, the Jews took the fruits in their possession and twenty thousand wasqs of dates were due from them.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

I taught some persons of the people of Suffah writing and the Qur'an. A man of them presented to me a bow. I said: It cannot be reckoned property; may I shoot with it in Allah's path? I must come...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

I said: What do you think about it, Messenger of Allah? He said: A live coal between your shoulders which you have put around your neck or hanged it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

Some of the Companions of Prophet (ﷺ) went on a journey. They encamped with a clan of the Arabs and sought hospitality from them, but they refused to provide them with any hospitality. The chief of the clan was stung...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

This tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Sa'id al-Khudri form the Prophet (ﷺ).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

You have brought what is good from this man. Then they brought a lunatic in chains. He recited Surat al-Fatihah over him three days, morning and evening. When he finished, he collected his saliva and then spat it out, (he...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: The earnings of a cupper are impure, the price paid for a dog is impure, and the hire paid to a prostitute is impure.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

Muhayyisah asked permission of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) regarding hire of the cupper, but he forbade him. He kept on asking his permission, and at last he said to him: Feed your watering camel with it and feed your...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) got him self cupped and gave the cupper his wages. Had he considered it impure, he would not have given it (wage) to him.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

That Abu Tibah cupped the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he ordered that a sa' of dates be given to him, also ordering his people to remit some of his dues.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Wages (Kitab Al-Ijarah)

That the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade earnings of slave-girls.