How did we justify this issue, namely that it is permissible to sell in the market, given that the operative cause, which is enmity and hatred, is a derived cause, and considering that it has been mentioned to us that a derived cause does not specify a hadith?

The questioner : Shaykh, may Allah reward you. I ask: How did we justify this issue, namely that it is permissible to sell in the market, given that the operative cause of enmity and hatred among people is a derived cause? How did we specify the hadith with it, especially since it has been mentioned to us more than once that a derived cause does not specify a hadith? How did we specify it in this case?

The Shaykh : No, we specified it based on the reality that the market is considered a place for everyone. And regarding His saying: "to their dwellings", the buyer says, "This is my dwelling," and the seller, having relinquished it and left, is as if he delivered it to me.

The questioner : How do we answer the narrator's statement about "the top of the market"?

The Shaykh : It is possible that "the top of the market" refers to places designated for this person, because in the past, and until recently, they would give a person a piece of land and say, "This is your place for selling," and they called this an endowment of usufruct. I believe this was mentioned to you in the context of reviving dead land, regarding the endowment of usufruct. This is it. Yes.