Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #27468

Abu Kurayb and Mahmoud bin Ghaylan narrated to us, they said, Waki’ narrated to us, on the authority of Sufyan, on the authority of Abu al-Zinad, on the authority of al-Araj, on the authority of Abu Hurairah, he said: No. The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, on the authority of trade and contact. He said, and on the authority of Abu Sa’id and Ibn Umar. Abu Issa said: The hadith of Abu Hurairah is a good and authentic hadith. The meaning of this hadith is that he says: If I renounce the thing to you, then the sale between you and me is obligatory. Touching is when he says that if you touch the thing, it is obligatory to sell it, even if he does not see anything of it, such as what is in the sock or otherwise. This was merely one of the trades of the people of pre-Islamic times, so he forbade that.