What is the ruling on hoarding goods in the market (such as grains), and what is the meaning of hoarding?

The questioner : The issue of hoarding goods...

The Shaykh : What is the topic?

The questioner : The issue of hoarding goods in the market, such as grains, for example.

The Shaykh : Yes.

The questioner : Hoarding grains, yes.

The Shaykh : Please, my brother, complete your statement.

The questioner : Hoarding grains means, for example, when the grain season comes, like beans and fava beans and these things, at the beginning... of the land, we can take a large quantity and store it before it is sold and dried, and then it is sold. Is this hoarding?

The Shaykh: No.

The questioner : Is there no hoarding in it?

The Shaykh : No, there is no hoarding in it.

The questioner : So, what is the meaning of hoarding?

The Shaykh : And upon you be peace. The meaning of hoarding is that you go down to the market and collect the goods from the market at any price until you empty the market and confine the goods to yourself, excluding all the people. This is hoarding, and hoarding is not storage.

The questioner : Does this also involve storage?

The Shaykh : May Allah guide you. You just understand.

The questioner : Yes?

The Shaykh : I am telling you, just understand. Not every storage is hoarding, but every hoarding is storage.

The questioner : So, the issue of fava beans and beans and these grains...

The Shaykh : Without specifying, what is the benefit of specifying? Understand the meaning of hoarding and you will be at ease. You go down to the market and collect the goods, whatever goods they are, and you hoard them with you, such that when the people go down to the market, they do not find the goods except with you. This is hoarding.

The questioner : May Allah reward you with good.

The Shaykh : And beware of yourself.