Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 1 Malik related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam that his father said, “Abdullah and Ubaydullah, the sons of Umar ibn al-Khattab went out with the army to Iraq. On the way home, they passed by Abu Musa al- Ashari who was the amir of Basra. He greeted them and […]
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 32, Qirad, discusses the partnership contract in business investments.
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 2 Malik related to me from al-Ala ibn Abd ar-Rahman from his father from his father that Uthman ibn Affan gave him some money as qirad to use provided the profit was shared between them. وَحَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ، عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ جَدِّهِ، أَنَّ عُثْمَانَ بْنَ عَفَّانَ، […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 3 Malik said, “The recognised and permitted form of qirad is that a man take capital from an associate to use. He does not guarantee it and in travelling pays out of the capital for food and clothes and what he makes good use of, according to the amount of […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 4 Malik said, “When a man owes money to another man and he asks him to let it stay with him as a quirad, that is disapproved of until the creditor receives his property. Then he can make it a qirad loan or keep it. That is because the debtor […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 5 Yahya said that Malik spoke about an investor who made a qirad loan and stipulated to the agent that only certain goods should be bought with his money or he forbade certain goods which he named to be bought. He said, “There is no harm in an investor making […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 6 Yahya said that Malik said, “The person who puts up the principal must not stipulate that he has something of the profit alone without the agent sharing in it, nor must the agent stipulate that he has something of the profit alone without the investor sharing. In qirad, there […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 7 Yahya said that Malik said, “No one should make a qirad loan except in coin, because the loan must not be in wares, since loaning wares can only be worked in one of two ways: Either the owner of the wares says to the borrower, ‘Take these wares and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 8 Yahya said that Malik spoke about a man who made a qirad loan to a man and he bought wares with it and transported them to a commercial centre. It was not profitable to sell them and the agent feared a loss if he sold them, so he hired […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 9 Yahya said that Malik spoke about an investor who made a qirad loan to a man, who used it and made a profit. Then the man bought with all the profit a slave-girl and he had intercourse with her and she became pregnant by him, and so the capital […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 10 Yahya said that Malik spoke about an investor who made a qirad loan to a man. He said, “When the investment is large, the travelling expenses of the agent are taken from it. He can use it to eat and clothe himself in an acceptable fashion according to the […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 11 Yahya said that Malik spoke about an agent who had qirad money with him and he spent from it and clothed himself. He said, “He cannot give away any of it, and neither a beggar nor anyone else is to be given any of it and he does not […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 32, Hadith 12 Yahya said that Malik said, “The generally agreed on way of doing things among us about an investor who pays qirad money to an agent to buy goods, and the agent then sells the goods for a price to be paid later, and has a profit in the transaction, […]