Muwatta' Malik 31-78

Translation

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban and from Abu'z-Zinad from al-Araj from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade mulamasa and munabadha. Malik said, "Mulamasa is when a man can feel a garment but is not allowed to unfold it or examine what is in it, or he buys by night and does not know what is in it. Munabadha is that a man throws his garment to another, and the other throws his garment without either of them making any inspection. Each of them says, 'this is for this. 'This is what is forbidden of mulamasa and munabadha." Malik said that selling bundles with a list of their contents was different from the sale of the cloak concealed in a bag or the cloth folded up and such things. What made it different was that it was a common practice and it was what people were familiar with, and what people had done in the past, and it was still among the permitted transactions and trading of people in which they saw no harm because in the sale of bundles with a list of contents without undoing them, an uncertain transaction was not intended and it did not resemble mulamasa.

Notes

• -[٦٦٧]- قالَ مالِكٌ: «والمُلامَسَةُ: أنْ يَلْمِسَ الرَّجُلُ الثَّوْبَ، ولا يَنْشُرُهُ، ولا يَتَبَيَّنُ ما فِيهِ، أوْ يَبْتاعَهُ لَيْلًا، ولا يَعْلَمُ ما فِيهِ، والمُنابَذَةُ أنْ يَنْبِذَ الرَّجُلُ إلى الرَّجُلِ ثَوْبَهُ، ويَنْبِذَ الآخَرُ إلَيْهِ ثَوْبَهُ عَلى غَيْرِ تَأمُّلٍ مِنهُما، ويَقُولُ كُلُّ واحِدٍ مِنهُما هَذا بِهَذا، فَهَذا الَّذِي نُهِيَ عَنْهُ مِنَ المُلامَسَةِ والمُنابَذَةِ» قالَ مالِكٌ: «فِي السّاجِ المُدْرَجِ فِي جِرابِهِ، أوِ الثَّوْبِ القُبْطِيِّ المُدْرَجِ فِي طَيِّهِ، إنَّهُ لا يَجُوزُ بَيْعُهُما، حَتّى يُنْشَرا، ويُنْظَرَ إلى ما فِي أجْوافِهِما، وذَلِكَ أنَّ بَيْعَهُما مِن بَيْعِ الغَرَرِ، وهُوَ مِنَ المُلامَسَةِ» قالَ مالِكٌ: «وبَيْعُ الأعْدالِ عَلى البَرْنامَجِ، مُخالِفٌ لِبَيْعِ السّاجِ فِي جِرابِهِ، والثَّوْبِ فِي طَيِّهِ، وما أشْبَهَ ذَلِكَ، فَرَقَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ الأمْرُ المَعْمُولُ بِهِ، ومَعْرِفَةُ ذَلِكَ فِي صُدُورِ النّاسِ، وما مَضى مِن عَمَلِ الماضِينَ فِيهِ، وأنَّهُ لَمْ يَزَلْ مِن بُيُوعِ النّاسِ الجائِزَةِ، والتِّجارَةِ بَيْنَهُمِ الَّتِي لا يَرَوْنَ بِها بَأْسًا، لِأنَّ بَيْعَ الأعْدالِ عَلى البَرْنامَجِ عَلى غَيْرِ نَشْرٍ، لا يُرادُ بِهِ الغَرَرُ، ولَيْسَ يُشْبِهُ المُلامَسَةَ»

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  يرويه مالك بن أنس واختلف عنه فرواه محمد بن محمد بن سليمان الباغندي عن سويد عن مالك عن عمرو بن يحيى المازني عن محمد بن يحيى بن حبان عن الأعرج عن أبي هريرة ووهم في ذكر عمرو بن يحيى وإنما سمعه مالك عن محمد بن يحيى بن حبان كذلك هو في الموطأ وروي عن بشر عن مالك عن يحيى بن سعيد عن محمد بن يحيى بن حبان ولا يصح

  machine translationMālik b. Anas narrates it, and there is disagreement about what he reported. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Bāghandī narrated it from Suwayd, from Mālik, from ʿAmr b. Yaḥyā al-Māzinī, from Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān, from al-Aʿraj, from Abū Hurayrah, and he erred in mentioning ʿAmr b. Yaḥyā; Mālik only heard it from Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān, and so it is in the Muwaṭṭaʾ. It was also reported from Bishr, from Mālik, from Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd, from Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān, but this is not sound (lā yaṣiḥḥ). Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 1276

Other narrations of this report

Sahih al-Bukhari 5819Sunan an-Nasa'i 4510Sunan an-Nasa'i 4514Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7939Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7941al-Sunan al-Kubra (al-Bayhaqi) 10982

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī

   The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
   أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
   عن
2. 2
   ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Hurmuz al-Aʿraj

   trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), a scholar (ʿālim)d. 110 AH, or 117 AH, 119 AH
   الْأَعْرَجِثقة ثبت عالم
   عن
3. 3
   Abū al-Zinād

   trustworthy (thiqah), jurist (faqīh)d. 129 AH, or 130 AH, or 131 AH, also said: 132 AH
   أَبِي الزِّنَادِثقة ، فقيه
   عن
4. 4
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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