Narrated Ubaydah ibn as-Samit:

I taught some persons of the people of Suffah writing and the Qur'an. A man of them presented to me a bow. I said: It cannot be reckoned property; may I shoot with it in Allah's path? I must come to the Apostle of of Allah and ask him (about it). So I came to him and said : Apostle of Allah , one of those whom I have been teaching writing and the Qur'an has presented me a bow, and as it cannot be reckoned property, may I shoot with it in Allah's path? He said: If you want to have a necklace of fire on you, accept it.

Narrated Alaqah ibn Sahar at-Tamimi:

Alaqah passed by a clan (of the Arab) who came to him and said: You have brought what is good from this man. Then they brought a lunatic in chains. He recited Surat al-Fatihah over him three days, morning and evening. When he finished, he collected his saliva and then spat it out, (he felt relief) as if he were set free from a bond. They gave him something (as wages). He then came to the Prophet and mentioned it to him. The Apostle of Allah said: Accept it, for by my life, some accept it for a worthless charm, but you have done so far a genuine one.

Narrated Rafi' ibn Khadij:

The Prophet said: The earnings of a cupper are impure, the price paid for a dog is impure, and the hire paid to a prostitute is impure.

Narrated Muhayyisah ibn Ka'b:

Muhayyisah asked permission of the Apostle of Allah regarding hire of the cupper, but he forbade him. He kept on asking his permission, and at last he said to him: Feed your watering camel with it and feed your slave with it.

Narrated Rafi' ibn Rifa'ah:

Tariq ibn AbdurRahman al-Qarashi said: Rafi' ibn Rifa'ah came to a meeting of the Ansar and said: The Prophet of Allah forbade us (from some things) today, and he mentioned some things. He forbade the earning of a slave-girl except what she earned with her hand. He indicated (some things) with his fingers such as baking, spinning, and ginning.

Narrated AbuMas'ud:

The Prophet forbade the price paid for a dog, the hire paid to a prostitute, and the gift given to a soothsayer.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

The Apostle of Allah forbade (taking hire for) a stallion's covering.

Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:

AbuMajidah said: I cut the ear of a boy, or he cut my ear (the narrator is doubtful). AbuBakr then came to us to perform hajj and we got together with him. But he referred us to Umar ibn al-Khattab. Umar (ibn al-Khattab) said: This reached the extent of retaliation. Call a cupper to me so that he may retaliate. When the cupper was called, he (Umar) said: I heard the Apostle of Allah say: I gave a boy to my maternal aunt, and I hope that she will be blessed in respect of him. I said to her: Do not entrust him to a supper, nor to a goldsmith, nor to a butcher.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet said: If anyone buys a slave who possesses property, his property belongs to the seller unless the buyer makes a proviso.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

The Prophet said: A townsman must not sell for a man from the desert, even if he is his brother or father.

Narrated Talhah ibn Ubaydullah:

Salim al-Makki said that a bedouin told him that he brought a milch she-camel in the time of the Apostle of Allah . He alighted with Talhah ibn Ubaydullah (and wanted to sell his milch animal to him). He said: The Prophet forbade a townsman to sell for a man from the desert. But go to the market and see who buys from you. consult me thereafter, and then I shall ask you (to sell) or forbid you.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet forbade payment for cat.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

The Prophet said: If anyone buys a sheep whose udders have been tied up, he has option for three days (for decision). If he returns it, he should return with it wheat equal to its milk or double of it.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:

The Apostle of Allah forbade to break the coins of the Muslims current among them except for some defect.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

A man came and said: Apostle of Allah, fix prices. He said: (No), but I shall pray. Again the man came and said: Apostle of Allah, fix prices. He said: It is but Allah Who makes the prices low and high. I hope that when I meet Allah, none of you has any claim on me for doing wrong regarding blood or property.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

The people said: Apostle of Allah , prices have shot up, so fix prices for us. Thereupon the Apostle of Allah said: Allah is the one Who fixes prices, Who withholds, gives lavishly and provides, and I hope that when I meet Allah, none of you will have any claim on me for an injustice regarding blood or property.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

The Prophet said: Both parties in a business transaction have a right to annul it so long as they have not separated unless it is a bargain with the option to annul is attached to it; and it is not permissible for one of them to separate from the other for fear that one may demand that the bargain be rescinded.

Narrated AbuBarzah:

AbulWadi', Abbad ibn Nasib said: We fought one of our battle, and encamped at a certain place. One of our companions sold a horse for a slave. After that they remained there for the rest of day and night. When the next morning came, they prepared themselves for departure. The buyer of the horse began to saddle it, but the seller was ashamed (of the transaction). He went to the man (buyer) and asked him to annul the transaction. The man refused to hand it over (the horse) to him.

He said: AbuBarzah, the companion of the Prophet , is to decide between me and you. They went to AbuBarzah in the corner of the army. They related this story to him.

He said: Do you agree that I make a decision between you on the basis of the decision of the Apostle of Allah ?

The Apostle of Allah said: Both parties in a business transaction have an option (right) to annul it so long as they have not separated.

Hisham to Hassan said that Jamil said in his version: "I do not think that you separated."

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

When AbuZur'ah made a business transaction with a man, he gave him the right of option. He then would tell him: Give me the right of option (to annul the bargain). He said: I heard AbuHurayrah say: The Apostle of Allah said: Two people must separate only by mutual consent.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: If anyone rescinds a sale with a Muslim, Allah will cancel his slip, on the Day of Resurrection.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: If anyone makes two transactions combined in one bargain, he should have the lesser of the two or it will involve usury.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

I heard the Apostle of Allah, say: When you enter into the inah transaction, hold the tails of oxen, are pleased with agriculture, and give up conducting jihad (struggle in the way of Allah). Allah will make disgrace prevail over you, and will not withdraw it until you return to your original religion.

Narrated Abdullah ibn AbuAwfa ibn AbuAwfa al-Aslami:

We made a journey to Syria on an expedition along with the Apostle of Allah . The Nabateans of Syria came to us and we paid in advance to them (in a salam contract) in wheat and olive oil at a specified rate and for a specified time. He asked (by the people): you might have contracted with him who had these things in his possession? He replied: We did not ask them.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

A man paid in advance for a palm-tree. It did not bear fruit that year. They brought their case for decision to the Prophet . He said: for which do you make his property lawful? He then said: Do not pay in advance for a palm-tree till they (the fruits) were clearly in good condition.

Narrated AbuSa'id al-Khudri:

The Prophet said: If anyone pays in advance he must not transfer it to someone else before he receives it.

Narrated A man:

A man from the immigrants of the Companions of the Prophet said: I participated in battle three times along with the Prophet . I heard him say: Muslims have common share in three (things). grass, water and fire.

Narrated Iyas ibn Abd:

The Apostle of Allah forbade the sale of excess water.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet forbade payment for dog and cat.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas:

The Apostle of Allah forbade the price paid for a dog; if someone comes to ask for the price of a dog, fill his hand-palm with dust.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: The price paid for a dog, the price given to a soothsayer, and the hire paid to a prostitute are not lawful.

Narrated Al-Mughirah ibn Shu'bah:

The Prophet said: He who sold wine should shear the flesh of swine.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar:

The Apostle of Allah forbade to sell grain which one buys by measurement until one receives it in full.

Narrated Zayd ibn Thabit:

Ibn Umar said: I bought olive oil in the market. When I became its owner, a man met me and offered good profit for it. I intended to settle the bargain with him, but a man caught hold of my hand from behind. When I turned I found that he was Zayd ibn Thabit. He said: Do not sell it on the spot where you have bought it until you take it to your house, for the Apostle of Allah forbade to sell the goods where they are bought until the tradesmen take them to their houses.

Narrated Anas ibn Malik:

During the time of the Apostle of Allah a man used to buy (goods), and he was weak in his intellect. His people came to the Prophet of Allah and said: Prophet of Allah, stop so-and-so (to make a bargain) for he buys (goods), but he is weak in his intellect. So the Prophet called on him and forbade him to make a bargain. He said: Prophet of Allah, I cannot keep away myself from business transactions. Thereupon the Apostle of Allah said: If you cannot give up making a bargain , then say: Take , and give, and there is no attempt to deceive.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

The Apostle of Allah forbade the type of transactions in which earnest money was paid. Malik said: This means, as we think--Allah better knows-that a man buys a slave or hires an animal, and he says: I give you a dinar on condition that if I give up the transaction or hire, what I gave you is yours.

Narrated Hakim ibn Hizam:

Hakim asked (the Prophet): Apostle of Allah, a man comes to me and wants me to sell him something which is not in my possession. Should I buy it for him from the market? He replied: Do not sell what you do not possess.

Narrated Uqbah ibn Amir:

The Prophet said: The contractual obligation of a slave is three days.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

The Apostle of Allah said: Profit follows responsibility.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

Makhlad ibn Khufaf al-Ghifari said: I and some people were partners in a slave. I employed him on some work in the absence of one of the partners. He got earnings for me. He disputed me and the case of his claim to his share in the earnings to a judge, who ordered me to return the earnings (i.e. his share) to him. I then came to Urwah ibn az-Zubayr, and related the matter to him. Urwah then came to him and narrated to him a tradition from the Apostle of Allah on the authority of Aisha: Profit follows responsibility.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

A man bought a slave, and he remained with him as long as Allah wished him to remain. He then found defect in him. He brought his dispute with him to the Prophet and he returned him to him. The man said: Apostle of Allah, my slave earned some wages. The Apostle of Allah then said: Profit follows responsibility.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Mas'ud:

Muhammad ibn al-Ash'ath said: Al-Ash'ath bought slaves of booty from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud for twenty thousand (dirhams. Abdullah asked him for payment of their price. He said: I bought them for ten thousand (dirhams). Abdullah said: Appoint a man who may adjudicate between me and you. Al-Ash'ath said: (I appoint) you between me and yourself. Abdullah said: I heard the Apostle of Allah say: If both parties in a business transaction differ (on the price of an article), and they have witness between them, the statement of the owner of the article will be accepted (as correct) or they may annul the transaction.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: When land has been divided and boundaries have been set up, there is no right of pre-emption in it.

Narrated Samurah:

The Prophet said: A neighbour has the best claim to the house or land of the neighbour.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet said: The neighbour is most entitled to the right of pre-emption, and he should wait for its exercise even if he is absent, when the two properties have one road.

Narrated AbuBakr ibn AbdurRahman ibn al-Harith ibn Hisham:

The Prophet said: If a man sells (his) property and the man who buys it becomes insolvent, and the seller does not receive the price of the property he had sold, but finds his very property with him (i.e. the buyer), he is more entitled to it (than others). If the buyer dies, then the owner of the property is equal to the creditors.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

A similar tradition (to the No. 3513) has been transmitted by AbuHurayrah from the Prophet .

This version has: If he paid something from its price, then he will be equal to the creditors in the remaining price. If a man dies and he has the very property of a man (i.e. seller), he is equal to the creditors whether he (the buyer) pays him (the price) or not.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

Umar ibn Khaldah said: We came to AbuHurayrah who had become insolvent. He said: I shall decide between you on the basis of the decision of the Apostle of Allah : If anyone becomes insolvent or dies and the man (the seller) finds his very property with him, he is more entitled to it (than others).

Narrated Amir ash-Sha'bi:

The Prophet said: If anyone finds an animal whose owners were helpless to provide fodder to it and so they turned it out (of their house), and he took it and looked after it, it will belong to him.

Narrated ash-Sha'bi:

The Prophet said: If anyone leaves an animal at a place of perishing and another man brings it to life, it belongs to him who brings it to life.

Narrated Umar ibn al-Khattab:

reported the Prophet as saying: There are people from the servants of Allah who are neither prophets nor martyrs; the prophets and martyrs will envy them on the Day of Resurrection for their rank from Allah, the Most High.

They (the people) asked: Tell us, Apostle of Allah, who are they? He replied: They are people who love one another for the spirit of Allah (i.e. the Qur'an), without having any mutual kinship and giving property to one. I swear by Allah, their faces will glow and they will be (sitting) in (pulpits of) light. They will have no fear (on the Day) when the people will have fear, and they will not grieve when the people will grieve.

He then recited the following Qur'anic verse: "Behold! Verily for the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve."

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

The aunt of Umarah ibn Umayr asked Aisha: I have an orphan in my guardianship. May I enjoy from his property? She said: The Apostle of Allah said: The pleasantest things a man enjoys come from what he earns, and his child comes from what he earns.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

The Prophet Said: The children of a man come from what he earns, rather they are his pleasantest earning; so enjoy from their property.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

A man came to the Prophet and said: Apostle of Allah, I have property and children, and my father finishes my property. He replied; You and your property belong to your father; your children come from the pleasantest of what you earn; so enjoy from the earning of your children.

Narrated Samurah ibn Jundub:

The Prophet said: If anyone finds his very property with a man, he is more entitled to it (than anyone else), and the buyer should pursue the one who sold it.

Narrated Yusuf ibn Malik al-Makki:

I used to write (the account of) the expenditure incurred on orphans who were under the guardianship of so-and-so. They cheated him by one thousand dirhams and he paid these (this amount) to them. I then got double the property which they deserved. I said (to the man: Take one thousand (dirhams) which they have taken from you (by cheating). He said: No, my father has told me that he heard the Apostle of Allah say: Pay the deposit to him who deposited it with you, and do not betray him who betrays you.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: Pay the deposit to him who deposited it with you, and do not betray him who betrayed you.

Narrated AbuHurayrah:

The Prophet said: I swear by Allah, I shall not accept gift from anyone after this day except from an immigrant Qarashi, an Ansari a Dawsi or a Thaqafi.

Narrated Abdullah Ibn Umar ; Abdullah Ibn Abbas:

The Prophet said: It is not lawful for a man to make a donation or give a gift and then take it back, except a father regarding what he gives his child. One who gives a gift and then takes it back is like a dog which eats and vomits when it is full, then returns to its vomit.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

The Prophet said: The similitude of the one who takes back what he gifted is like that of a dog which vomits and then it eats vomit. When a donor seeks to take back (his gift), it should be made known and he informed why he sought to take it back. Then whatever he donated should be returned to him.

Narrated AbuUmamah:

The Prophet said: If anyone intercedes for his brother and he presents a gift to him for it and he accepts it, he approaches a great door of the doors of usury.

Narrated An-Nu'man ibn Bashir:

The Prophet said: Act equally between your children; Act equally between your sons.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:

The Prophet said: It is not permissible for a woman to present a gift (from her husband's property) except with the permission of her husband.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet said: If anyone is given life-tenancy, it belongs to him and to his descendants. His descendants who inherit him will inherit from it.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet said: Do not give property to go to the survivor and do not give life-tenancy. If anyone is given something to the survivor or given life-tenancy, it goes to his heirs.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Apostle of Allah decided a case of a woman from the Ansar to whom an orchard of date-palms was given by her son. She then died. Her son said: I gave it to her for her life, and she has brothers. Thereupon the Apostle of Allah said: It belongs to her during her life and after death. He then said: I gave a sadaqah (charity to her. He replied: It is more unexpected from you.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:

The Prophet said: Life-tenancy is lawful for the one to whom it is given and donation of property to go to the survivor is lawful to whom it is given.

Narrated Zayd ibn Thabit:

The Prophet said: If anyone gives something in life-tenancy, it belongs to the one to whom it is given, in his life and after his death; and do not give property to go to the survivor, for if anyone gives something to to to the survivor, it belongs to him.

Narrated Safwan ibn Umayyah:

The Apostle of Allah borrowed coats of mail from him on the day of (the battle of) Hunayn. He asked: Are you taking them by force. Muhammad? He replied: No, it is a loan with a guarantee of their return.

Narrated Safwan ibn Umayyah:

The Apostle of Allah borrowed coats of mail from him on the day of (the battle of) Hunayn. He asked: Are you taking them by force. Muhammad? He replied: No, it is a loan with a guarantee of their return.

Narrated Some people:

AbdulAziz ibn Rufay' narrated on the authority of some people from the descendants of Abdullah ibn Safwan who reported the Apostle of Allah as saying: Have you weapons, Safwan? He asked: On loan or by force? He replied: No, but on loan. So he lent him coats of mail numbering between thirty and forty! The Apostle of Allah fought the battle of Hunayn. When the polytheists were defeated, the coats of mail of Safwan were collected. Some of them were lost. The Apostle of Allah said to Safwan: We have lost some coats of mail from your coats of mail. Should we pay compensation to you? He replied: No. Apostle of Allah, for I have in my heart today what I did not have that day.

Narrated AbuUmamah:

I heard the Apostle of Allah Said: Allah , Most Exalted, has appointed for everyone who has a right what is due to him, and no will be made to an heir, and a woman should not spend anything from her house except with the permission of her husband. He was asked: Even foodgrain, Apostle of Allah? He replied: That is the best of our property. He then said: A loan must be paid back, a she-camel lent for a time for milking must be returned, a debt must be discharged, one who stands surety is held responsible.

Narrated Ya'la ibn Umayyah:

The Apostle of Allah said to me: When my messengers come to you, give them thirty coats of mail, and thirty camels. I asked: Apostle of Allah, is it a loan with a guarantee of its return, or a loan to be paid back? He replied : It is a loan to be paid back.

Narrated Aisha, Ummul Mu'minin:

I saw no one cooking food like Safiyyah. She cooked food for the Apostle of Allah and sent it. I became angry and broke the vessel. I then asked: Apostle of Allah, what is the atonement for what I have done? He replied: A vessel like (this) vessel and food like (this) food.

Narrated Muhayyisah:

The she-camel of Bara' ibn Azib entered the garden of a man and did damage to it. The Apostle of Allah gave decision that the owners of properties are responsible for guarding them by day, and the owners of animals are responsible for guarding them by night.

Narrated Al-Bara' ibn Azib:

Al-Bara' had a she-camel which was accustomed to graze the standing crop belonging to the people. She entered a garden and did damage to it. The Apostle of Allah was informed about it.

So he gave decision that the owners of gardens are responsible for guarding them by day, and the owners of the animals are responsible for guarding them by night. Any damage done by animals during the night is a responsibility lying on their owners.