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nasai:4612ʿUthmān b. ʿAbdullāh > Saʿīd b. Sulaymān > ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām > Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah > Abū Rajāʾ > ʿUthmān > Muḥammad b. Sayf > Maṭar al-Warrāq > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'No man is bound by a transaction involving the sale of something that he does not possess.'''  

النسائي:٤٦١٢أَخْبَرَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ الْعَوَّامِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ قَالَ عُثْمَانُ هُوَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَيْفٍ عَنْ مَطَرٍ الْوَرَّاقِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ لَيْسَ عَلَى رَجُلٍ بَيْعٌ فِيمَا لاَ يَمْلِكُ  


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Collected by Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
nasai-kubra:6161ʿUthmān b. ʿAbdullāh > Saʿīd b. Sulaymān > ʿAbbād b. al-ʿAwwām > Saʿīd b. Abū ʿArūbah > Abū Rajāʾ > ʿUthmān > Muḥammad b. Sayf > Maṭar al-Warrāq > ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb from his father from his grandfather

"The Messenger of Allah said: 'No man is bound by a transaction involving the sale of something that he does not possess.''' (Using translation from Nasāʾī 4612)  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦١٦١أَخْبَرَنَا عُثْمَانُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سَعِيدُ بْنُ سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَبَّادِ بْنِ الْعَوَّامِ عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ أَبِي عَرُوبَةَ عَنْ أَبِي رَجَاءٍ قَالَ عُثْمَانُ هُوَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ سَيْفٍ عَنْ مَطَرٍ الْوَرَّاقِ عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ جَدِّهِ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «لَيْسَ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ بَيْعٌ فِيمَا لَا يَمْلِكُ»