Muwatta Malik 28 — Business Transactions
Muwatta Malik : 28
Muwatta MalikHadith Number 28
قَالَ مَالِكٌ: " الْأَمْرُ الْمُجْتَمَعُ عَلَيْهِ عِنْدَنَا، أَنَّ مَنِ ابْتَاعَ شَيْئًا مِنَ الْفَاكِهَةِ مِنْ رَطْبِهَا أَوْ يَابِسِهَا، فَإِنَّهُ لَا يَبِيعُهُ حَتَّى يَسْتَوْفِيَهُ، وَلَا يُبَاعُ شَيْءٌ مِنْهَا بَعْضُهُ بِبَعْضٍ، إِلَّا يَدًا بِيَدٍ، وَمَا كَانَ مِنْهَا مِمَّا يَيْبَسُ، فَيَصِيرُ فَاكِهَةً يَابِسَةً تُدَّخَرُ، وَتُؤْكَلُ، فَلَا يُبَاعُ بَعْضُهُ بِبَعْضٍ إِلَّا يَدًا بِيَدٍ، وَمِثْلًا بِمِثْلٍ إِذَا كَانَ مِنْ صِنْفٍ وَاحِدٍ، فَإِنْ كَانَ مِنْ صِنْفَيْنِ مُخْتَلِفَيْنِ، فَلَا بَأْسَ بِأَنْ يُبَاعَ مِنْهُ اثْنَانِ بِوَاحِدٍ يَدًا بِيَدٍ، وَلَا يَصْلُحُ إِلَى أَجَلٍ، وَمَا كَانَ مِنْهَا مِمَّا لَا يَيْبَسُ وَلَا يُدَّخَرُ، وَإِنَّمَا يُؤْكَلُ رَطْبًا كَهَيْئَةِ الْبِطِّيخِ وَالْقِثَّاءِ وَالْخِرْبِزِ، وَالْجَزَرِ وَالْأُتْرُجِّ، وَالْمَوْزِ وَالرُّمَّانِ وَمَا كَانَ مِثْلَهُ، وَإِنْ يَبِسَ لَمْ يَكُنْ فَاكِهَةً بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ، وَلَيْسَ هُوَ مِمَّا يُدَّخَرُ، وَيَكُونُ فَاكِهَةً، قَالَ: فَأَرَاهُ حَقِيقًا أَنْ يُؤْخَذَ مِنْهُ مِنْ صِنْفٍ وَاحِدٍ اثْنَانِ بِوَاحِدٍ يَدًا بِيَدٍ، فَإِذَا لَمْ يَدْخُلْ فِيهِ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْأَجَلِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا بَأْسَ بِهِ "
Malik Narrated from:
The generally agreed on way of doing things among us is that some one who buys some fruit, fresh or dry, should not resell it until he gets full possession of it. He should not barter things of the same type, except hand to hand. Whatever can be made into dry fruit to be stored and eaten, should not be bartered for its own kind, except hand to hand, like for like, when it is the same kind of fruit. In the case of two different kinds of fruit, there is no harm in bartering two of one kind for one of another, hand to hand on the spot. It is not good to set delayed terms.As for produce which is not dried and stored but is eaten fresh like water melon, cucumber, melon, carrots, citron, medlars, pomegranates, and so on, which when dried no longer counts as fruit, and is not a thing which is stored up as is fruit, I think that it is quite proper to barter such things two for one of the same variety hand to hand. If no term enters into it, there is no harm in it.
USC-MSA web (English) reference : Book 31, Hadith 27
Translation source
- Compiler:
- Imam Malik ibn Anas
- Translator:
- Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley
- Publisher:
- Darussalam Publication
