about selling dates before they ripen?
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The questioner : We return to the topic regarding, for example, deferred sales... A man is a merchant and he guaranteed this orchard, and after he saw the dates... but if after he bought and paid, but you find the period... we will not pick this date and the fruit was struck, who does all this loss fall upon?
The Shaykh : ... How?
The questioner : ... He, when he bought, the dates were ripe, but you know many merchants, for example, these orchards, we do not want... the market except once, it might be in this market, so we negotiate with him, of course, in the field..?
The Shaykh : What do you mean by negotiate?
The questioner : I mean a disease came upon it.
The Shaykh : The disease, in the authentic hadiths, it is forbidden to sell the fruit before the onset of its ripeness, so this guarantee is not permissible except after the safety from corruption.
The questioner : So that it is safe, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, except after the guarantee of the safety of the fruit that was bought, so if it was bought before the guarantee of safety from corruption, and then the fruit was struck, the loss returns to the seller. There are authentic hadiths regarding this, and this situation is expressed by the phrase "placing the calamities," calamities is the plural of calamity, and the calamity is...
The Shaykh : ... How?
The questioner : ... He, when he bought, the dates were ripe, but you know many merchants, for example, these orchards, we do not want... the market except once, it might be in this market, so we negotiate with him, of course, in the field..?
The Shaykh : What do you mean by negotiate?
The questioner : I mean a disease came upon it.
The Shaykh : The disease, in the authentic hadiths, it is forbidden to sell the fruit before the onset of its ripeness, so this guarantee is not permissible except after the safety from corruption.
The questioner : So that it is safe, meaning.
The Shaykh : Yes, except after the guarantee of the safety of the fruit that was bought, so if it was bought before the guarantee of safety from corruption, and then the fruit was struck, the loss returns to the seller. There are authentic hadiths regarding this, and this situation is expressed by the phrase "placing the calamities," calamities is the plural of calamity, and the calamity is...