Malik related to me from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""Do not go out to meet the caravans for trade, do not bid against each other, outbidding in order to raise the price, and a townsman must not buy on behalf of a man of the dese...

Malik said, from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, forbade najsh. Malik said, ""Najsh is to offer a man more than the worth of his goods when you do not mean to buy them and someone else follows you in bidding

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from Abdullah ibn Umar that a man mentioned to the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that he was always being cheated in business transactions. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""When you enter a tran...

Malik related to me that Yahya ibn Said heard Said ibn al- Musayyab say, ""When you come to a land where they give full measure and full weight, stay there. When you come to a land where they shorten the measure and weight, then do not stay there very long

Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said that he heard Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir say, ""Allah loves his slave who is generous when he sells, and generous when he buys, generous when he repays, and generous when he is repaid."" Malik said about a man who bought camels or sheep or dry goods or slaves or any goods without m...

Malik related to me that he asked Ibn Shihab about a man who hired an animal, and then re-hired it out for more than what he hired it for. He said, ""There is no harm in that

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 made them welcome, and told them that if there was anything he could...

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

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 capital. That is, when he travels to do the work and the capital...

Malik related to me that Ibn Shihab said, ""I asked Said ibn al- Musayyab about renting land for gold or silver, and he said, 'There is no harm in it

Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab that he asked Salim ibn 'Abdullah ibn Umar about renting out fields. He said, ""There is no harm in it for gold or silver."" Ibn Shihab said, ""I said to him, 'What do you think of the hadith which is mentioned from Rafi ibn Khadij?'"" He said, ''Rafi has exaggerated. If I had a fiel...

Malik related to me that he had heard that Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf rented land, and he continued to have it in his possession until he died. His son said, ""I thought that it was ours because of the length of time which it had remained in his hands, until he mentioned it to us at his death. He ordered us to pay some rent...

Malik related to me from Hisham ibn Urwa that his father used to rent out his land for gold and silver. Malik was asked about a man who rented his field for 100 sa of dates or part of its produce of wheat or from other than its produce. He disapproved of that

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al- Musayyab and from Abu Salama ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, decreed for partners the right of preemption in property which had not been divided up. When boundaries had been fixed between the...

Malik said, ""That is the sunna about which there is no dispute among us."" Malik said that he heard that Said ibn al-Musayyab, when asked about pre-emption and whether there was a sunna in it, said, ""Yes. Pre-emption is in houses and land, and it is only between partners

Malik related to me that he heard the like of that from Sulayman ibn Yasar. Malik spoke about a man who bought out one of the partners in a shared property, by paying the man with an animal, a slave, a slave-girl, or the equivalent of that in goods. Then another partner decided to exercise his right of pre-emption afte...

Yahya said that Malik related from Muhammad ibn Umara from Abu Bakr ibn Hazm that Uthman ibn Affan said, ""When boundaries are fixed in land, there is no pre-emption in it. There is no pre-emption in a well or in male palm trees. "" Malik said, ""This is what is done in our community."" Malik said, ""There is no pre-em...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham ibn Urwa from his father from Zaynab bint Abi Salama from Umm Salama, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""I am but a man to whom you bring your disputes. Perhaps one of ...

Malik related to me from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Umar ibn al-Khattab had a dispute brought to him between a muslim and a jew. Umar saw that the right belonged to the jew and decided in his favour. The jew said to him, ""By Allah! You have judged correctly.'' So Umar ibn al-Khattab struck him with ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Amr ibn Hazm from his father from Abdullah ibn Amr ibn Uthman from Abu Amra al-Ansari from Zayd ibn Khalid al-Juhani that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""Shall I not tell you who is the best of witnesses?...

Malik related to me that Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman said, ""An Iraqi man came before Umar ibn al-Khattab and said, 'I have come to you because of a matter which has no beginning and no end.' Umar said, 'What is it?' The man said, 'False testimony has appeared in our land.' Umar said, 'Is that so?' He said, 'Yes.' Umar...

Malik related to me that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, ""The testimony of some one known to bear a grudge or to be unreliable is not accepted

Yahya said from Malik that he heard from Sulayman ibn Yasar and others that when they were asked whether the testimony of a man flogged for a hadd crime was permitted, they said, ""Yes, when repentance (tawba) appears from him."" Malik related to me that he heard Ibn Shihab being asked about that and he said the like o...

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Yahya said, ""Malik said from Jafar ibn Muhammad from his father that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, pronounced judgement on the basis of an oath with one witness

From Malik from Abu'z-Zinad that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to Abd al-Hamid ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn Zayd ibn al-Khattab who was the governor of Kufa, ""Pronounce judgement on the basis of an oath with one witness

Malik related to me that he heard that Abu Salama ibn Abd ar- Rahman and Sulayman ibn Yasar were both asked, ""Does one pronounce judgement on the basis of an oath with one witness?"" They both said, ""Yes."" Malik said, ""The precedent of the sunna in judging by an oath with one witness is that if the plaintiff takes ...

Yahya said that Malik spoke about a man who died and had a debt owing to him and there was one witness, and some people had a debt against him and they had only one witness, and his heirs refused to take an oath on their rights with their witness. He said, ""The creditors take an oath and take their rights. If there is...

Yahya said, ""Malik said from Hisham ibn Urwa that Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr gave judgment based on the testimony of children concerning the injuries between them."" Malik said, ""The generally agreed on way of doing things in our community is that the testimony of children is permitted concerning injuries between them. I...

Yahya said, Malik related to us from Hisham ibn Hisham ibn Utba ibn Abi Waqqas from Abdullah ibn Nistas from Jabir ibn Abdullah al- Ansari that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'If someone swears a false oath near this mimbar of mine, he will take his seat in the fire