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Sahih Muslim, 1553 a
sahih

Anas reported Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) as saying Never does a Muslim plant trees or cultivate land and birds or a man or a beast eat out of them but that is a charity on his behalf.

حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ يَحْيَى، وَقُتَيْبَةُ بْنُ سَعِيدٍ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ الْغُبَرِيُّ، - وَاللَّفْظُ لِيَحْيَى - قَالَ يَحْيَى أَخْبَرَنَا وَقَالَ الآخَرَانِ، حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَوَانَةَ، عَنْ قَتَادَةَ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏

‏ مَا مِنْ مُسْلِمٍ يَغْرِسُ غَرْسًا أَوْ يَزْرَعُ زَرْعًا فَيَأْكُلُ مِنْهُ طَيْرٌ أَوْ إِنْسَانٌ أَوْ بَهِيمَةٌ إِلاَّ كَانَ لَهُ بِهِ صَدَقَةٌ ‏

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Isnad

7 transmitters
  1. 1Yahya bin Yahya bin BukayrNisapur,Khurasan,Hijaz,Iraq,Syria,Egypt · d. 226 AH
  2. 2Qutayba bin Sa'id bin JamilBulkh,Bakhalan, Baghdad · d. ~240 AH
  3. 3Muhammad bin 'Ubaid al-Tanafasial-Kufa · d. 204 AH
  4. 4Yahya bin Sa'id bin Farroukh al-QatanBasra · d. 198 AH
  5. 5Wadah bin 'Abdullah al-YashkariBasra,al-Wasit · d. 176 AH
  6. 6QatadaBasra/Medina · d. ~117 AH
  7. 7Anas bin MalikMedinah,Damascus, Basrah · d. 93 AH/712 CE
References2 variants
In-Book Reference
Book 22, Hadith 12
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Book 10, Hadith 3769 (deprecated numbering scheme)
Sharh · explanationclick to expand
Islam is keen on protecting and maintaining rights, and such keenness is manifest in its warning against taking people's rights unjustly and its severe threat against whoever transgresses or violates such a prohibition. In this Hadīth, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) clarifies that if someone buys fruits from his Muslim brother, the form of this sale is to buy the fruits while still on the trees or while still in the seller's possession and not yet delivered to the buyer, then, the fruits are stricken by a calamity, which is a disaster or blight that overruns the fruits, causing their destruction and ruin. In this case, it will not be lawful for the seller, who is the owner of the fruits, to take anything from the buyer. How could he take his brother's money when the fruits are damaged and stricken by blight and calamity that prevented benefiting from them?! No one should take his brother's money wrongfully because when the fruits are spoilt, there is nothing left for the buyer in return for what he has paid. Hence, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) forbade selling fruits before they seem in good condition and ripen - as mentioned in the two Sahīh Collections - since rulings are based on what is predominant. In the version mentioned in the two Sahīh Collections, the Prophet (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) was asked: "What is its good condition? He said: Till there is no danger of blight," and it turns out as desired as when it appears to be ripe, for only then, it is safe from disease, which is the blight..
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