The ruling on intercepting travelers and buying from them

Question:
This questioner asks: What is the meaning of intercepting travelers and buying from them? And what is the ruling on selling and buying in such a case?

Answer:
It is not permissible to intercept travelers or to intercept those bringing goods, because this harms the people of the market. Let the travelers and those bringing goods come to the market so that people may benefit from them. If you intercept them and buy what they have with them, you will then harm the people of the market. For this reason, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade intercepting travelers and intercepting those bringing goods. Thus, intercepting those bringing goods and intercepting travelers is forbidden, and it is a sin.
If the people bringing goods arrive, because this is harmful to those bringing goods and harmful because it deceives them and takes from them cheap goods while they do not know about the goods inside the markets, and it also harms the people of the market; there is harm to both parties. If the people bringing goods come to the market and find that they have been deceived and tricked, they have the choice. They have the choice to complete the sale or to annul it, in order to remove the harm from them. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,