Selling samples to shops before they enter the merchant's ownership

The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I am a representative for a company, and I distribute samples of our goods to small shops. These shops display the samples to customers and write out an invoice for the customer before the goods enter their ownership. He asks: What is the ruling on selling to these shops? Because most of them deal in this manner?

The Shaykh:
I did not understand the question. Repeat it.

The questioner:
He says: I am a representative for a company, and I distribute samples of our goods to small shops. These small shops display these samples to customers and write out an invoice for the customer before the goods enter their ownership. What is the ruling on selling to these shops? Because most of them deal in this manner.

The Shaykh:
This falls into two categories. Selling a specific item is not permissible except after taking possession of it and the seller owning it, as in the hadith.
As for selling a non-specific item by description, selling a described item in the debt, it is permissible on the condition that the price is paid in the session of the contract, that the price of the goods is paid in the session of the contract. It is like the debt of a salam contract. It is not permissible for them to separate without having received the price if it is a sale of a described, non-specific item, a described item in the debt. It is obligatory to take possession of the price in the session. But if it is a sale of a specific item, it is not permissible except if the seller owns it and takes possession of it, then it is permissible to sell it as in the hadith. Yes.