Preventing cheating in sales and avoiding potential disputes between buyers and sellers are among the objectives of the Laws of Islam. Therefore, the Prophet ﷺ forbade some sales that could lead to cheating and deception, or cause potential disputes between the two parties. In this hadeeth, the Prophet ﷺ forbade selling only the unpicked fruits (rather than the fruits or dates and trees or palm trees) before they ripen, by showing signs of ripeness in terms of color or shape. The Prophet ﷺ underlined the reason for such a prohibition saying: “If Allah caused the fruits to go bad and spoil, what right would one have to take the money of his fellow Muslim brother (i.e., the buyer)?” This means that the Prophet ﷺ forbade such a sale because the unripe fruits may go bad and spoil, and thus the buyer would lose his money.It is prohibited for a Muslim to unlawfully take his Muslim brother’s wealth, and selling unripe fruits may lead to unlawfully taking the wealth of one’s Muslim brother, because if the fruits went bad and spoiled, the buyer would not receive anything in return for his payment! .