It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) issued the ruling that the benefit is in return for the liability.

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The benefit is in return for the liability."

It is narrated from Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ruled that the benefit is in return for the liability (responsibility for loss).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Samurah bin Jundub (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The two parties to a sale have the option (to cancel the deal) as long as they have not separated from one another, and each of them may take from the sale what he likes." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said this three times. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it with this addition.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Buraydah (may Allah be pleased with him) that when Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) came to Madinah, he came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with a gift on a platter and placed it before him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "O Salman, what is this?" He said: "It is charity for you and your Companions." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I do not eat charity." So it was taken away. Then the next day he brought the same (platter) and placed it before him. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "What is this?" He said: "It is a gift for you." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to his Companions: "Eat as well." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "To whom do you belong (as a slave)?" He said: "To such-and-such people." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Ask them to make a contract of kitabah (an agreement for freedom) with you." Salman (may Allah be pleased with him) said: So they made a contract of kitabah with me in return for planting such-and-such a number of date palms, which Salman would tend until they bore fruit. The narrator said: So they did so. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) came and planted all the date palms with his own hand except one tree; that one tree was planted by Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). The trees he (peace and blessings be upon him) had planted bore fruit that same year, except that one tree. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Who planted this one?" The people said: "Umar (may Allah be pleased with him)." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) planted it (again) with his blessed hand, and it too bore fruit that same year. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim, and Imam Abu Bakr (al-Bayhaqi) has recorded it in the chapter on the permissibility of the seller stipulating the service of the sold (slave) for a fixed period of time.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) that Sayyiduna Salman al-Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) told me: A Jewish man bought him and brought him to Madinah. He said: Then I came to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) with a gift and said: "This is charity." So he (peace and blessings be upon him) said to his Companions: "All of you eat," but he (peace and blessings be upon him) himself did not eat of it. Then he mentioned the rest of the hadith in the same way. This supporting narration (shahid) is also sahih (authentic) on the condition of Muslim.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "It is not lawful to combine a loan with a sale, nor to stipulate two conditions in one sale, nor to take profit on something for which you bear no liability (for loss), nor to sell what you do not have (in your possession)." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of a group of the Imams of the Muslims, and it has likewise been narrated from Amr bin Shu'ayb by Dawud bin Abi Hind, Abd al-Malik bin Abi Sulayman and others.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with them both) that he said: I said: "O Messenger of Allah, I hear things from you that I fear I will forget; do you permit me to write them down?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." Among the things he wrote down from the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was that when he (peace and blessings be upon him) sent Attab bin Asid (may Allah be pleased with him) to the people of Makkah (as governor), he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Inform them that two deals in one sale are not permissible, nor is the sale of what one does not own, nor combining a loan with a sale, nor two conditions in one sale."

It is narrated from Umarah bin Khuzaymah, from his paternal uncle (who was a Companion of the Messenger of Allah), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) bought a horse from a Bedouin. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) took him along behind him in order to pay him the price of his horse. He (peace and blessings be upon him) walked quickly while the Bedouin lagged behind. Meanwhile, some people met the Bedouin and began bargaining with him over the horse, not knowing that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had already bought it, until some of them offered the Bedouin a higher price. When the price went up, the Bedouin called out: "O Messenger of Allah, if you are going to buy this horse then buy it; otherwise I am selling it." When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) heard the Bedouin's call, he stood up, came to him and said: "Did I not buy it from you?" He said: "No, by Allah, I did not sell it to you." He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, I did buy it from you." The people gathered around the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and the Bedouin while the two of them were disputing the matter. The Bedouin began saying: "Bring a witness that I sold it to you." Then Sayyiduna Khuzaymah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I bear witness that you (peace and blessings be upon him) bought it." The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) turned to Khuzaymah and asked: "On what basis do you bear witness?" He said: "On the basis of affirming you (as a Prophet)." So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) made the testimony of Khuzaymah equal to the testimony of two men. This hadith has a sahih (authentic) chain, and its narrators are trustworthy by the agreement of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Khuzaymah bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) bought a horse from Sawa' bin al-Harith al-Muharibi, but he denied (having sold it). So Sayyiduna Khuzaymah bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) bore witness in his (peace and blessings be upon him) favour. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) asked him: "What moved you to bear witness when you were not present?" He said: "O Messenger of Allah, you have spoken the truth; rather, I affirmed what you told us, and I know that you say nothing but the truth." Then he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever Khuzaymah bears witness for or against, that is sufficient for him."