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ذِكْرُ الْبَيَانِ بِأَنَّ قَوْلَهُ ﷺ «فَإِنْ فَارَقَهُ فَلَا خِيَارَ لَهُ»، أَرَادَ بِهِ فِي غَيْرِ بَيْعِ الْخِيَارِ

ibnhibban:4916ʿUmar b. Saʿīd b. Sinān > Aḥmad b. Abū Bakr > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Both the buyer and the seller have the option of canceling or confirming a bargain unless they separate, or the sale is optional." (See Hadith No.320). (Using translation from Bukhārī 2111)  

ابن حبّان:٤٩١٦أَخْبَرَنَا عُمَرُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ سِنَانٍ أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «الْمُتَبَايعَانِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا إِلَّا بَيْعَ الْخِيَارِ»  


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Collected by Bukhārī, Muslim, Nasāʾī, Abū Dāwūd, Mālik, Aḥmad, Ḥākim, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Bayhaqī, Suyūṭī
bukhari:2111ʿAbdullāh b. Yūsuf > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Both the buyer and the seller have the option of canceling or confirming a bargain unless they separate, or the sale is optional." (See Hadith No.320).  

البخاري:٢١١١حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ يُوسُفَ أَخْبَرَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ؓ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْمُتَبَايِعَانِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا بِالْخِيَارِ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا إِلاَّ بَيْعَ الْخِيَارِ  

muslim:1531aYaḥyá b. Yaḥyá > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

Both parties in a business transaction have the right to annul it so long as they have not separated; except in transactions which have been made subject to the right of parties to annul them.  

مسلم:١٥٣١aحَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى قَالَ قَرَأْتُ عَلَى مَالِكٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْبَيِّعَانِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا بِالْخِيَارِ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا إِلاَّ بَيْعَ الْخِيَارِ  

nasai:4465Muḥammad b. Salamah And al-Ḥārith b. Miskīn > Ibn al-Qāsim > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

"The two parties to a transaction both have the choice so long as they both chosen to conclude the transaction." (Sahih )  

النسائي:٤٤٦٥أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍ قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْمُتَبَايِعَانِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا بِالْخِيَارِ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ مَا لَمْ يَفْتَرِقَا إِلاَّ بَيْعَ الْخِيَارِ  

abudawud:3454ʿAbdullāh b. Maslamah > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: Each one of the two parties in a business has an option (to annul it) against the other party so long as they have not separated, except in a conditional bargain.  

أبو داود:٣٤٥٤حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْمُتَبَايِعَانِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا بِالْخِيَارِ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ مَا لَمْ يَفْتَرِقَا إِلاَّ بَيْعَ الْخِيَارِ  

malik:31-81Yaḥyá > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Both parties in a business transaction have the right of withdrawal as long as they have not separated, except in the transaction called khiyar." Malik said, "There is no specified limit nor any matter which is applied in this case according to us."  

مالك:٣١-٨١حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى عَنْ مَالِكٍ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قالَ: «المُتَبايِعانِ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنهُما بِالخِيارِ عَلى صاحِبِهِ، ما لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقا إلّا بَيْعَ الخِيارِ» قالَ مالِكٌ: «ولَيْسَ لِهَذا عِنْدَنا حَدٌّ مَعْرُوفٌ، ولا أمْرٌ مَعْمُولٌ بِهِ فِيهِ»  

ahmad:393Isḥāq b. ʿĪsá > Mālik > Nāfiʿʿan Ibn ʿUmar

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: “The two parties to a transaction have the option (of cancelling it) so long as they have not parted or there is a condition which gives the option to cancel.ʿ  

أحمد:٣٩٣حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ عِيسَى حَدَّثَنَا مَالِكٌ عَنْ نَافِعٍعَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْمُتَبَايِعَانِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا أَوْ يَكُونُ الْبَيْعُ خِيَارًا  

ahmad:5418ʿAffān > Ḥammād b. Salamah > Ayyūb > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

"The Messenger of Allah said: "The two parties to a transaction both have the choice who long as they have not separated or one of them says to the other: 'Decide!"' (Sahih ) (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4469)   

أحمد:٥٤١٨حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ أَخْبَرَنَا أَيُّوبُ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْبَيِّعَانِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا أَوْ يَقُولُ أَحَدُهُمَا لِصَاحِبِهِ اخْتَرْ  

ahmad:5158Yaḥyá > ʿUbaydullāh > Nāfiʿ > Ibn ʿUmar

[Machine] From the Prophet ﷺ, he said: "Every transaction consists of two options, and one of them is upon the owner with the best choice until they separate or it becomes a better choice."  

أحمد:٥١٥٨حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللهِ أَخْبَرَنِي نَافِعٌ عَنِ ابْنِ عُمَرَ

عَنِ النَّبِيِّ ﷺ قَالَ كُلُّ بَيِّعَيْنِ فَأَحَدُهُمَا عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ بِالْخِيَارِ حَتَّى يَتَفَرَّقَا أَوْ يَكُونَ خِيَارًا  

ahmad:20252ʿAffān > Hammām > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "The two parties in a transaction have the option (to cancel) as long as they have not separated (from each other), or until one of them has taken what was agreed upon in the transaction."  

أحمد:٢٠٢٥٢حَدَّثَنَا عَفَّانُ حَدَّثَنَا هَمَّامٌ عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ الْبَيِّعَانِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا أَوْ يَأْخُذْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا مَا رَضِيَ مِنَ الْبَيْعِ  

hakim:2182al-Shaykh Abū al-Walīd > Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd al-Jabbār > Abū Khaythamah Zuhayr b. Ḥarb > Muʿādh b. Hishām from my father > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah b. Jundab

[Machine] The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ said: "The two parties in a transaction have the option to cancel as long as they do not separate. Each one should take from the transaction what pleases them." He repeated this statement three times.  

الحاكم:٢١٨٢أَخْبَرَنَا الشَّيْخُ أَبُو الْوَلِيدِ حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو خَيْثَمَةَ زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا مُعَاذُ بْنُ هِشَامٍ حَدَّثَنِي أَبِي عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ بْنِ جُنْدَبٍ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَالَ «الْبَيِّعَانِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا وَيَأْخُذُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا مِنَ الْبَيْعِ مَا يَهْوَى» قَالَهَا ثَلَاثًا  

«هَذَا حَدِيثٌ صَحِيحٌ عَلَى شَرْطِ الشَّيْخَيْنِ وَلَمْ يُخَرِّجَاهُ بِهَذِهِ الزِّيَادَةِ» على شرط البخاري ومسلم
tabarani:6835Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Qazzāz > Abū ʿUmar al-Ḥawḍī > Hammām b. Yaḥyá > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

"The Messenger of Allah said;" Two traders have the choice as long as they have not separated, or until they reach a deal that suits both of th4em or that is satisfactory (to both)" (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4482)   

الطبراني:٦٨٣٥حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى الْقَزَّازُ ثنا أَبُو عُمَرَ الْحَوْضِيُّ ثنا هَمَّامُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ قَتَادَةَ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «الْبَيِّعَانِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا وَيَأْخُذُ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا مَا رَضِيَ مِنَ الْبَيْعِ»  

nasai-kubra:6014Muḥammad b. Salamah And al-Ḥārith b. Miskīn > Ibn al-Qāsim > Mālik > Nāfiʿ > ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: Each one of the two parties in a business has an option (to annul it) against the other party so long as they have not separated, except in a conditional bargain. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3454)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٠١٤أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَ وَالْحَارِثُ بْنُ مِسْكِينٍ قِرَاءَةً عَلَيْهِ وَأَنَا أَسْمَعُ وَاللَّفْظُ لَهُ عَنِ ابْنِ الْقَاسِمِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مَالِكٌ عَنْ نَافِعٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ

أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ قَالَ «الْمُتَبَايِعَانِ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا بِالْخِيَارِ عَلَى صَاحِبِهِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا إِلَّا بَيْعَ الْخِيَارِ»  

bayhaqi:10448ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Bishrān > Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAmr al-Razzāz > Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Shākir > ʿAffān > Hammām > Qatādah > al-Ḥasan > Samurah

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "The two parties of a transaction have the option to renege on it until they separate, and each party takes what satisfies them from the transaction."  

البيهقي:١٠٤٤٨أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ بِشْرَانَ أنا أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَمْرٍو الرَّزَّازُ ثنا جَعْفَرُ بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ شَاكِرٍ ثنا عَفَّانُ ثنا هَمَّامٌ ثنا قَتَادَةُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ سَمُرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ الْبَيِّعَانِ بِالْخِيَارِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا وَيَأْخُذْ كُلُّ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا مَا رَضِيَ مِنَ الْبَيْعِ  

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"المُتَبَايِعَانَ كُلُّ واحِدٍ منْهُمَا بالخيَارِ عَلَى صَاحبِهِ مَا لَمْ يَتَفَرَّقَا إِلا بَيع الخِيَارِ" .  

مالك، [خ] البخاري [م] مسلم [د] أبو داود [ن] النسائي عن ابن عمر