Selling What You Don't Own

E-snad · Business
Coming soon in audio

Hakîm ibn Hizâm's question

Episodes

  1. Episode 1 · free

    The question at the market

    A customer wants an item you do not have. You could buy it afterwards and keep the difference. Is that a sale? A Companion once asked the Prophet ﷺ this very question.

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  2. Episode 2

    Before it is in your hands

    You have bought the stock and paid for it. Can you resell it at once, straight from the supplier's shelf? In the markets of Medina, the Companions met this exact question.

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  3. Episode 3

    The exception of Medina

    If selling what you do not have is forbidden, how can a farmer sell a harvest that has not grown yet? The answer was given when the Prophet ﷺ arrived in Medina.

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