What is the ruling on selling goods in the place where they were purchased?
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The questioner : This is a merchant, O Shaykh, who has a warehouse containing a quantity of goods. One of them came and bought that quantity from this merchant.
The Shaykh : What? What did he buy?
The questioner : He bought the goods in the warehouse.
The Shaykh : All of it?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Without him knowing about it?
The questioner : Listen, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Without him knowing about it?
The questioner : No, he came and took it, but it remained in the warehouse. He left it in the warehouse, and then another person came and bought it from this first buyer as well. After a while, the owner of the warehouse called the second buyer and said to him: "I need these goods and I will buy them from you, and they are in the warehouse and have not been moved." Is it permissible for the merchant to buy them?
The Shaykh : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade selling goods in the place where they were purchased. So it is obligatory for the first buyer, if he wants to sell them, to move them to his house or to his shop or to the market—may Allah have mercy on you—and sell them there.
The questioner : He left them, saying he would take them later.
The Shaykh : It is not valid, it is not valid until he moves them. But if the matter has already occurred, the matter is past, if Allah wills, and there is nothing in it. That is, they repent to Allah and do not return to it.
The Shaykh : What? What did he buy?
The questioner : He bought the goods in the warehouse.
The Shaykh : All of it?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : Without him knowing about it?
The questioner : Listen, Shaykh.
The Shaykh : Without him knowing about it?
The questioner : No, he came and took it, but it remained in the warehouse. He left it in the warehouse, and then another person came and bought it from this first buyer as well. After a while, the owner of the warehouse called the second buyer and said to him: "I need these goods and I will buy them from you, and they are in the warehouse and have not been moved." Is it permissible for the merchant to buy them?
The Shaykh : The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade selling goods in the place where they were purchased. So it is obligatory for the first buyer, if he wants to sell them, to move them to his house or to his shop or to the market—may Allah have mercy on you—and sell them there.
The questioner : He left them, saying he would take them later.
The Shaykh : It is not valid, it is not valid until he moves them. But if the matter has already occurred, the matter is past, if Allah wills, and there is nothing in it. That is, they repent to Allah and do not return to it.