23. Commercial Transactions

٢٣۔ كتاب البيوع

23.28 Regarding An Agent Doing Something Other Than What He Was Instructed To Do

٢٣۔٢٨ باب فِي الْمُضَارِبِ يُخَالِفُ

abudawud:3384Musaddad > Sufyān > Shabīb b. Gharqadah > al-Ḥa > ʿUrwah / Ibn Abū al-Jaʿd al-Bāriqī

The Prophet ﷺ gave him a dinar to buy a sacrificial animal or a sheep. He bought two sheep, sold one of them for a dinar, and brought him a sheep and dinar. So he invoked a blessing on him in his business dealing, and he was such that if had he bought dust he would have made a profit from it.  

أبو داود:٣٣٨٤حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ شَبِيبِ بْنِ غَرْقَدَةَ حَدَّثَنِي الْحَىُّ عَنْ عُرْوَةَ يَعْنِي ابْنَ أَبِي الْجَعْدِ الْبَارِقِيِّ قَالَ

أَعْطَاهُ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ دِينَارًا يَشْتَرِي بِهِ أُضْحِيَةً أَوْ شَاةً فَاشْتَرَى شَاتَيْنِ فَبَاعَ إِحْدَاهُمَا بِدِينَارٍ فَأَتَاهُ بِشَاةٍ وَدِينَارٍ فَدَعَا لَهُ بِالْبَرَكَةِ فِي بَيْعِهِ فَكَانَ لَوِ اشْتَرَى تُرَابًا لَرَبِحَ فِيهِ  

abudawud:3385al-Ḥasan b. al-Ṣabbāḥ > Abū al-Mundhir > Saʿīd b. Zayd > Akhū Ḥammād b. Zayd > al-Zubayr b. al-Khirrīt > Abū Labīd

The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by 'Urwat al-Bariqi through a different chain of narrators. The wordings of this version are different from those of the previous one.  

أبو داود:٣٣٨٥حَدَّثَنَا الْحَسَنُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْمُنْذِرِ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ هُوَ أَخُو حَمَّادِ بْنِ زَيْدٍ حَدَّثَنَا الزُّبَيْرُ بْنُ الْخِرِّيتِ عَنْ أَبِي لَبِيدٍ

حَدَّثَنِي عُرْوَةُ الْبَارِقِيُّ بِهَذَا الْخَبَرِ وَلَفْظُهُ مُخْتَلِفٌ  

abudawud:3386Muḥammad b. Kathīr al-ʿAbdī > Sufyān > Abū Ḥuṣayn > Shaykh from Ahl al-Madīnah > Ḥakīm b. Ḥizām

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ sent with him a dinar to buy a sacrificial animal for him. He bought a sheep for a dinar, sold it for two and then returned and bought a sacrificial animal for a dinar for him and brought the (extra) dinar to the Prophet ﷺ. The Prophet ﷺ gave it as alms (sadaqah) and invoked blessing on him in his trading.  

أبو داود:٣٣٨٦حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ الْعَبْدِيُّ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ حَدَّثَنِي أَبُو حُصَيْنٍ عَنْ شَيْخٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ عَنْ حَكِيمِ بْنِ حِزَامٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ بَعَثَ مَعَهُ بِدِينَارٍ يَشْتَرِي لَهُ أُضْحِيَةً فَاشْتَرَاهَا بِدِينَارٍ وَبَاعَهَا بِدِينَارَيْنِ فَرَجَعَ فَاشْتَرَى لَهُ أُضْحِيَةً بِدِينَارٍ وَجَاءَ بِدِينَارٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ ﷺ فَتَصَدَّقَ بِهِ النَّبِيُّ ﷺ وَدَعَا لَهُ أَنْ يُبَارَكَ لَهُ فِي تِجَارَتِهِ