Ruling on selling a live animal by weight
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Question: There are people who sell animals, such as cattle, sheep, and the like, while they are still alive, by the kilogram for a known price, knowing that the buyer sometimes intends to keep them, or to slaughter them to sell to people.
An example of this is: we go to an animal owner, choose what we want to buy, then he brings them to a scale he has and weighs them while alive, and sells them at a price per kilogram, for example, ten riyals. What is the ruling on this sale? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer: We do not know of any harm in selling a permissible animal—such as camels, cattle, and sheep—and the like by weight, whether it is alive or slaughtered; due to the generality of the saying of the Exalted: [al-Baqarah: 275], and due to the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) when he was asked: "Which earning is the purest?" He said: Mishkat al-Masabih 2783, and because there is no ignorance or excessive uncertainty in it. And success is from Allah.
An example of this is: we go to an animal owner, choose what we want to buy, then he brings them to a scale he has and weighs them while alive, and sells them at a price per kilogram, for example, ten riyals. What is the ruling on this sale? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer: We do not know of any harm in selling a permissible animal—such as camels, cattle, and sheep—and the like by weight, whether it is alive or slaughtered; due to the generality of the saying of the Exalted:
But Allah has permitted trade and has forbidden interest
وَأَحَلَّ اللّهُ الْبَيْعَ وَحَرَّمَ الرِّبَاA man’s work with his hand and every business transaction which is approved
عمل الرجل بيده، وكل بيع مبرور
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