Explanation of the Hadith: (Gold for gold, silver for silver, wheat for wheat, barley for barley, dates for dates, and salt for salt, like for like,

The Shaykh : He mentioned the addition. Glorious is Allah, I was supposed to review it today.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : What is the addition he mentioned at the end of the hadith? Do you remember? When he discussed it with me.
The student : Yes, yes, by Allah, I do not remember, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : I want to make sure it is there... this addition .
The student : By Allah, I do not remember, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Do you have the tape?
The student : No, by Allah, unfortunately, it is with my father Layla, of course.

The Shaykh : Were you not recording?
The student : I did not have the recorder with me; no, I forgot it. Glorious is Allah, we yesterday...

The Shaykh : But the issue that Abu Hazim raised based on this addition requires a re-examination of the addition.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh, I think you have no issue with this.
The student : Of course, there is no issue.

The Shaykh : Okay, the issue is when the categories differ.
The student : Likewise, yes.

The Shaykh : Is that not so?
The student : Likewise, O my Shaykh, yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, what is the issue with it , meaning if you understand the hadith as follows.
The student : Yes, the issue, O my Shaykh, is that...

The Shaykh : I wanted to complete it.
The student : Ah, you are completing it, O my Shaykh, yes.

The Shaykh : A kilo of silver for a kilo of silver. This is silver and this is silver, but let us assume that this silver is from such-and-such a country and is more acceptable due to its whiteness, for example.
The student : Very good.

The Shaykh : And the second silver does not have that whiteness. Is it permissible to exchange them? The answer is no. Rather, more than that, let us call the silver, in commercial terminology, adulterated, meaning it contains a quantity of copper.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : And this is not a condition that it be adulterated.
The student : It may be for the benefit.

The Shaykh : Benefit.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : So we say, in reality, this silver is adulterated and this silver is not adulterated. This is a kilo and this is a kilo. Is it permissible to take the difference? Meaning, to add. This is a kilo and this is a kilo. Here the saying of the Messenger of Allah is realized: . So when one gives the other the difference of the copper present in one of the two pieces, logically and rationally, this difference must be calculated.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Legally, it is not permissible, like for like. The evidence for this is the story of exchanging a sa' of good dates for two sa' of poor dates.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : The intellect says that what is this called? There is a difference in the price.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, so the Messenger of Allah, we did not mention yesterday the end of the hadith. The Messenger of Allah said: Sell the good dates.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : And buy whatever you wish of the poor dates, or sell the poor dates and buy whatever you wish of the dates, what? The good ones.
The student : Fine, yes.

The Shaykh : This is the essence. Now, in the example of the silver we are discussing, what do you have? A kilo of pure silver? Yes. Sell it and buy the silver, however much you want, whether it is mixed with copper or not.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Is this clear?
The student : Clear, O my Shaykh, yes.

The Shaykh : This is with regard to his saying: .
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Okay, the same image, or more than half of it. Two silver masses of the same type and the same whiteness. Zayd comes to buy and says to him, I bought this piece from you on the condition that I give you its price. A piece I have at home. It is not permissible. It must be what? Hand to hand.
The student : Hand to hand, fine.

The Shaykh : Like for like, we are done.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : This is hand to hand, and so on. You want good dates. This kilo, what is it? He says to him, the kilo is so much. I say to him, I have the same at home, I will give you the same. No, hand to hand, and so on.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : I think up to here it is clear what "like for like" and "hand to hand" mean.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : Are we going?
The student : Okay, O Shaykh.

The Shaykh : Okay, what is the issue.
The student : Okay, now, this clarification, may Allah be pleased with you, has relieved me of many questions that were in my mind.

The Shaykh: All right.
The student : Yes, the issue or the image that Abu Hazim mentioned, and perhaps it raised some of the issue, the matter of the grapes and that it is recorded and not recorded. Do you remember, O Shaykh, the detail that Abu Hazim mentioned...?

The Shaykh : My brother, yes, but I told him this needs study, do you remember.
The student : Yes, yes.

The Shaykh : It needs study and re-examination.
The student : Review, yes.

The Shaykh : Because he put an addition at the end of the hadith, which is: .
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : So I now want to make sure of this addition. Is "hand to hand" present in the beginning of the hadith? Or is it assumed in...
The student : In the case of difference.

The Shaykh : If the categories differ.
The student: Yes.

The Shaykh : It needs review.
The student: Yes.