Gambling and Excessive Uncertainty with Evidence and Example.
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The Shaykh : Likewise, gambling. Gambling is also a rule among the rules of transactions, and it is forbidden. Any transaction that includes gambling is forbidden, based on the saying of Allah the Exalted: [Al-Ma'idah 5:90] So what is gambling? Gambling is the contest of chance, where a person is either a winner or a loser, either a winner or a loser. An example of this is a man who has a stray camel. Do you know what "stray" means? It means lost or wandering. So he agreed with a person to sell it to him, and he sold it to him for five hundred riyals. If it had been present, its value would have been one thousand riyals, and if it had certainly perished, it would not have been worth anything, right? If it were present, it would be worth one thousand riyals; if it had certainly perished, it would be worth nothing... It is now between perishing and returning. So he sold it to him for five hundred riyals. This transaction contains gambling. What is the gambling? That one of them is either a winner or a loser. So if it turns out that the camel has perished, who is the winner?
The student: ...
The Shaykh : The seller, who is the owner of the camel. And if the camel had been found, who is the winner? The buyer. So one of them is either a winner or a loser. This sale is considered forbidden because it is gambling. And what is established in the authentic hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) applies to it, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)Sunan Abi Dawud 3376Sahih (Al-Albani) forbade the sale of excessive uncertainty because it is gambling.
O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.
يا أيها الذين آمنوا إنما الخمر والميسر والأنصاب والأزلام رجس من عمل الشيطان فاجتنبوه لعلكم تفلحونThe student: ...
The Shaykh : The seller, who is the owner of the camel. And if the camel had been found, who is the winner? The buyer. So one of them is either a winner or a loser. This sale is considered forbidden because it is gambling. And what is established in the authentic hadith of Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) applies to it, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)