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← CHAPTER TEN » Buying and Selling
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. 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’.