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Yahya related to me from Malik that Abu'z-Zinad heard Said ibn
al-Musayyab say, "There is usury only in gold or silver or what is
weighed or measured of what is eaten or drunk."
Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 36
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Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that al-Oasim
ibn Muhammad said, ''Umar ibn al-Khattab said, 'A dinar for a dinar,
and a dirham for adirham, and a sa for a sa. Something to be collected
later is not to be sold for something at hand. ' " Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 35
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Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said heard Said ibn
al-Musayyab say, "Keeping gold and silver out of circulation is part
of working corruption in the land."
Malik said, "There is no
harm in buying gold with silver or silver with gold without measuring
if it is unminted or a piece of jewellery which has been made. Counted
dirhams and counted dinars should not be bought without reckoning
until they are known and counted. To abandon number and buy them at
random would only be to speculate. That is not part of the business
transactions of Muslims. As for what is weighed of unminted objects
and jewellery, there is no harm in buying such things without
measuring. To buy them without measuring is like buying wheat, dried
dates, and such food-stuffs, which are sold without measuring, even
though things like them are measured "
Malik spoke about
buying a Quran, a sword or a signet ring which had some gold or
silver work on it with dinars or dirhams. He said, "The value of the
object bought with dinars, which has gold in it is looked at. If the
value of the gold is up to one-third of the price, it is permitted and
there is no harm in it if the sale is hand to hand and there is no
deferment in it. When something is bought with silver which has silver
in it, the value is looked at. If the value of the silver is one-
third, it is permitted and there is no harm in it if the sale is hand
to hand. That is still the way of doing things among us." Muwatta Malik Book 31, Hadith 37