Information for "MuwataMalik-017-001-35059"

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 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 soon; 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.