Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 25 Yahya related to me from Malik from Da’ud ibn al-Husayn from Abu Sufyan, the mawla of Ibn Abi Ahmad, from Abu Said al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade muzabana and muhaqala. Muzabana was selling fresh dates for dried dates while […]
Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.
Book 31, Business Transactions, discusses the principles and rules governing trade and commerce.
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 26 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade muzabana and muhaqala. Muzabana was selling fresh dates for dried dates. Muhaqala was buying unharvested wheat in exchange for threshed wheat […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 27 Malik said, “There is no harm in buying dates from specified trees or a specified orchard or buying milk from specified sheep when the buyer starts to take them as soon as he has payed the price. That is like buying oil from a container. A man buys some […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 28 Malik said, “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 […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 29 Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said said, “The Messenger of Allah, mayAllah bless him and grant him peace, ordered the two Sads to sell a vessel made of either gold or silver from the booty. They either sold each three units of weight for four […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 30 Yahya related to me from Malik from Musa ibn Abi Tamim from Abu’l Hubab Said ibn Yasar from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “A dinar for a dinar, a dirham for a dirham, no excess between the two.” […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 31 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abu Said al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Do not sell gold for gold except like for like and do not increase one part over another part. Do not sell silver […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 32 Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd ibn Qays al-Makki that Mujahid said, “I was with Abdullah ibn Umar and an artisan came to him and said, ‘Abu Abd ar-Rahman – I fashion gold and then sell what I have made for more than its weight. I take […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 33 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard from his grandfather, Malik ibn Abi Amir that Uthman ibn Affan said, “The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to me, ‘Do not sell a dinar for two dinars nor a dirham for […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 34 Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn Yasar that Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan sold a gold or silver drinking- vessel for more than its weight. Abu’dDarda said, “I heard the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbidding such […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 35 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, “Do not sell gold for gold except like for like, and do not increase one part over another part. Do not sell silver for silver except like for like, and do not […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 31, Hadith 36 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from Abdullah ibn Umar that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, “Do not sell gold for gold except like for like. Do not increase part of it over another part. Do not sell silver for silver except like for like, and […]