Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #27388

Abu Kurayb told us, Abu Usama told us, on the authority of Ubayd Allah ibn Umar, on the authority of Abu al-Zinad, on the authority of al-Araj, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, the Messenger of Allah forbade it. May God bless him and grant him peace, on the authority of the sale of deception and the sale of a pebble. He said, and on the authority of Ibn Omar, Ibn Abbas, Abu Saeed and Anas, he said. Abu Issa, the hadith of Abu Hurairah, is a hasan and authentic hadith. This hadith is acted upon according to the people of knowledge who disliked the sale of deception. Al-Shafi’i said. Among the trades of deception are the sale of fish in water, the sale of a freed slave, the sale of birds in the sky, and other similar types of trades. The meaning of selling a pebble is that the seller says to the buyer, “If I give you the pebble, then the sale is obligatory between you and me.” This is similar. By selling the Munabadha, and this was one of the sales of the people of pre-Islamic times.