Mishkat al-Masabih #2718
Business Transactions
He said that God’s Messenger forbade muhaqala, muzabana, mukhabara, mu'awama (Selling a year’s harvest before the crop has grown, or selling the fruit on one’s palm-trees two or three years ahead.) and thunya (An exception the amount of which is not accurately known.), but gave licence for ‘araya (Plural of ‘ariya. A palm-tree assigned by its owner to another who is in need, for him to eat its fruit for a year. It is said that a poor man who had no money to buy fresh dates might buy the fruit on a palm-tree for dry dates.)
Muslim transmitted it.
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This hadith is #2718 from Mishkat al-Masabih, in the Book of Business Transactions. Mishkat al-Masabih contains 4,428 hadiths across 25 books.