Volume 3, Book 34, Number 300:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
I heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “The swearing (by the seller) may persuade the buyer to purchase
the goods but that will be deprived of Allah’s blessing.”
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 291:
Narrated Hudhaifa:
The Prophet said, “Before your time the angels received the soul of a man and asked him, ‘Did you
do any good deeds (in your life)?’ He replied, ‘I used to order my employees to grant time to the rich
person to pay his debts at his convenience.’ So Allah said to the angels; “Excuse him.” Rabi said that
(the dead man said), ‘I used to be easy to the rich and grant time to the poor.’ Or, in another narra –
tion, ‘grant time to the well-off and forgive the needy,’ or, ‘accept from the well-off and forgive the
needy.’
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 292:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, “There was a merchant who used to lend the people, and whenever his debtor
was in straitened circumstances, he would say to his employees, ‘Forgive him so that Allah may for –
give us.’ So, Allah forgave him.”
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 293:
Narrated Hakim bin Hizam:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The seller and the buyer have the right to keep or return goods as long as
they have not parted or till they part; and if both the parties spoke the truth and described the defects
and qualities (of the goods), then they would be blessed in their transaction, and if they told lies or
hid something, then the blessings of their transaction would be lost.”
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 294:
Narrated Abu Said:
We used to be given mixed dates (from the booty) and used to sell (barter) two Sas of those dates)
for one Sa (of good dates). The Prophet said (to us), “No (bartering of) two Sas for one Sa nor two
Dirhams for one Dirham is permissible”, (as that is a kind of usury). (See Hadith No. 405).
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Volume 3, Book 34, Number 295:
Narrated Abu Mas’ud:
An Ansari man, called Abu Shu’aib, came and told his butcher slave, “Prepare meals sufficient for
five persons, for I want to invite the Prophet along with four other persons as I saw signs of hunger
on his face.” Abu Shu’aib invited them and another person came along with them. The Prophet said
(to Abu Shu’aib), This man followed us, so if you allow him, he will join us, and if you want him to
return, he will go back.” Abu Shu’aib said, “No, I have allowed him (i.e. he, too, is welcomed to the
meal).”
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 287:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “The Prophet David used not to eat except from the earnings of his manual
labor.”
Volume 3, Book 34, Number 288:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah’s Apostle said, “One would rather cut and carry a bundle of wood on his back than ask
somebody who may or may not live him.”