Reserving meat with the butcher

The questioner:
He says: We have heard that Your Eminence forbids reserving meat with the butcher when a person comes and says, "Reserve ten or twenty kilograms for me for tomorrow." Is this correct?

The Shaykh:
By Allah, praise be to Allah, I have no involvement with the butcher or the meat, and I have not issued this ruling. However, there is no harm if you pay money and tell the butcher, "I will take so much meat from you every day." This becomes like a salam (forward sale), like the debt in a salam. You advance the money to him and take the meat or bread from him day after day. There is no harm in that for the sake of need. Yes.

The questioner:
What if he did not pay the money?

The Shaykh:
No, if he did not pay the money, it is not permissible, because this becomes selling a debt for a debt. Yes.

The questioner:
I mean, if the person comes to the butcher and says, "I want ten kilograms of meat tomorrow," or if he comes tomorrow to take it and settle the account with the butcher.

The Shaykh:
If this is binding, it is not permissible. But if it is optional, there is no objection.

The questioner:
May Allah reward you.

The Shaykh:
As for if it is a binding contract, it is not permissible except by paying the value, because this takes the ruling of a salam. Yes.

The questioner:
I mean, if they have the option, there is no harm.

The Shaykh:
There is no harm in that for you.

The questioner:
In a binding manner.

The Shaykh:
As long as he did not come and delay, selling it is not objectionable.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you,