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RECOMMENDED (MUSTAḤABB) ACTS OF BUYING AND SELLING

Some things are considered recommended when buying and selling, including:

1.
one should not discriminate between buyers with respect to the price of goods except when taking into account the buyer’s impoverished situation and suchlike;

2.
at the start of business proceedings, one should say the shahādatayn (two testimonies),[1] and at the time of the transaction, one should say takbīr;[2]

3.
one should give more of what is being sold and take less of what is being bought;

4.
if the other party involved in the transaction regrets making the transaction and requests to annul (faskh) it, one should accept his request.

[1] That is, testifying to the oneness of Allah and the prophethood of Prophet Muḥammad (Ṣ).

[2] Takbīr is a proclamation of Allah’s greatness by saying ‘allāhu akbar’.
DISAPPROVED (MAKRŪH) TRANSACTIONS → ← CHAPTER TEN » Buying and Selling
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