What is the meaning of the brokerage (samsarah) found in trade?
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The questioner:
The questioner asks: What is the brokerage found in trade, or what is the meaning of the brokerage found in trade?
The Shaykh:
It is the brokerage of the broker (dalal) who intermediates between the seller and the buyer. The one who intermediates between the seller and the buyer is the broker, called the dalal. This is the broker, the intermediary.
The questioner:
He asks: And what is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, regarding it?
The Shaykh:
There is no harm if it does not involve lying or deception, for there is no harm in brokerage, because people need it. So there is no harm in a person working as a broker between the sellers and the buyers, on the condition that he does not deceive, does not lie, does not take anything from the rights of people, and does not sell.
As the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:Mishkat al-Masabih 2852 What do you say to those who came with them carrying goods, saying, "Come, give them to me and I will sell them to you"? You do not know what is permissible; this leaves them to sell them so that the people and the market people benefit from their low price. But if they intended them and said, "O so-and-so, sell us these goods," and they intended them and gave them to him, there is no harm; he becomes their broker.
As for him going to them and saying, "I will be your broker; you do not know the market," this is not permissible. He said, may Allah pray upon him and grant him peace:
The questioner asks: What is the brokerage found in trade, or what is the meaning of the brokerage found in trade?
The Shaykh:
It is the brokerage of the broker (dalal) who intermediates between the seller and the buyer. The one who intermediates between the seller and the buyer is the broker, called the dalal. This is the broker, the intermediary.
The questioner:
He asks: And what is your opinion, Honorable Shaykh, regarding it?
The Shaykh:
There is no harm if it does not involve lying or deception, for there is no harm in brokerage, because people need it. So there is no harm in a person working as a broker between the sellers and the buyers, on the condition that he does not deceive, does not lie, does not take anything from the rights of people, and does not sell.
As the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
God’s Messenger as saying, “A townsman must not sell for a man from the desert
صلى الله عليه وسلم لا يبع حاضر لبادAs for him going to them and saying, "I will be your broker; you do not know the market," this is not permissible. He said, may Allah pray upon him and grant him peace:
And a resident does not sell for a Bedouin. It was asked of Ibn Abbas, or of the narrator of the hadith, what is its meaning? He said: He does not act as their broker.
ولا يبع حاضر لباد قيل لابن عباس أو لراوي الحديث وما معناه؟ قال لا يكون له سمسارا
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما معنى السمسرة الموجودة في التجارة؟ للشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com
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