21/1. Chapter:
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan 967 — The Book of Sales (Bargains)
Prohibition of selling by Mulâmasa and Munâbadah.
[1] (Chap.1) The sale by Mulâmasa has different forms: The sale becomes valid on buyer's touching the clothes without checking or looking at them. For example, one brings a folded garment in the dark and the buyer offers a price and the owner of the garment says, "I sell it to you on condition that you will only touch it, not see it, and if you see it, you have no option to cancel the sale."[2] (Chap.1) The sale by Munâbadah is like gambling: Two persons may agree to barter one thing for another without seeing or checking either of them. One may say to another, "I barter my garment for your garment," and the sale is achieved without either of them seeing the garment of the other. Or one may say, "I give you what I have and you give me what you have," and thus they buy from each other without knowing how much each has had.
Al-Lu'lu Wal-Marjan : 967
Al-Lu'lu Wal-MarjanHadith Number 967
حديث أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ، قَالَ: نَهى رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ عَنْ لِبْسَتَيْنِ وَعَنْ بَيْعَتَيْنِ: نَهى عَنِ الْمُلَامَسَةِ وَالْمُنَابَذَةِ فِي الْبَيْعِ؛ وَالْمُلَامَسَةُ لَمْسُ الرَّجُلِ ثَوْبَ الآخَرِ بِيَدِهِ بِاللَّيْلِ أَوْ بِالنَّهَارِ وَلَا يُقَلِّبُهُ إِلَاّ بِذلِكَ، وَالْمُنَابَذَةُ أَنْ يَنْبِذَ الرَّجُلُ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ بِثَوْبِهِ وَيَنْبِذَ الآخَرُ ثَوْبَهُ، وَيَكُونَ ذلِكَ بَيْعَهُمَا مِنْ غَيْرِ نَظَرٍ وَلَا تَرَاضٍ وَاللِّبْسَتَيْنِ: اشْتِمَالُ الصَّمَّاءِ؛ وَالصَّمَّاءُ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ ثَوْبَهُ عَلَى أَحَدِ عَاتِقَيْهِ، فَيَبْدُوَ أَحَدُ شِقَّيْهِ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ، وَاللِّبْسَةُ الأُخْرَى احْتِبَاؤُهُ بِثَوْبِهِ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ لَيْسَ علَى فَرْجِهِ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ.
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri Narrated from:
Allâh's Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم forbade two ways of wearing clothes and two kinds of dealings.(A) He forbade the dealings of the Mulâmasa and the Manâbadah. In the Mulâmasa transaction the buyer just touches the garment he wants to buy at night or by daytime, and that touch would oblige him to buy it. In the Manâbadah, one man throws his garment at another and the latter throws his at the former and the barter is complete and valid without examining the two objects or being satisfied with them.(B) Ishtimal-as-Samma' i.e., (1) the wearing of clothes in two ways (2) to cover one shoulder with a garment and leave the other bare; to wrap oneself with a garment while sitting in such a way that nothing of that garment would cover one's private parts. ( Sahih Al-Bukhari, Hadith No. 710, Vol. 7)
