Hadith 5820

حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ ، عَنْ يُونُسَ ، عَنْ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ ، قَالَ : أَخْبَرَنِي عَامِرُ بْنُ سَعْدٍ ، أَنَّ أَبَا سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيَّ ، قَالَ : " نَهَى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ عَنْ لِبْسَتَيْنِ ، وَعَنْ بَيْعَتَيْنِ : نَهَى عَنِ الْمُلَامَسَةِ ، وَالْمُنَابَذَةِ فِي الْبَيْعِ " ، وَالْمُلَامَسَةُ : لَمْسُ الرَّجُلِ ثَوْبَ الْآخَرِ بِيَدِهِ بِاللَّيْلِ أَوْ بِالنَّهَارِ وَلَا يُقَلِّبُهُ إِلَّا بِذَلِكَ ، وَالْمُنَابَذَةُ : أَنْ يَنْبِذَ الرَّجُلُ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ بِثَوْبِهِ وَيَنْبِذَ الْآخَرُ ثَوْبَهُ وَيَكُونَ ذَلِكَ بَيْعَهُمَا عَنْ غَيْرِ نَظَرٍ وَلَا تَرَاضٍ ، وَاللِّبْسَتَيْنِ : اشْتِمَالُ الصَّمَّاءِ ، وَالصَّمَّاءُ : أَنْ يَجْعَلَ ثَوْبَهُ عَلَى أَحَدِ عَاتِقَيْهِ فَيَبْدُو أَحَدُ شِقَّيْهِ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ ثَوْبٌ وَاللِّبْسَةُ الْأُخْرَى احْتِبَاؤُهُ بِثَوْبِهِ وَهُوَ جَالِسٌ لَيْسَ عَلَى فَرْجِهِ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ .
Narrated Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri: Allah's Apostle forbade two ways of wearing clothes and two kinds of dealings. (A) He forbade the dealings of the Mulamasa and the Munabadha. In the Mulamasa transaction the buyer just touches the garment he wants to buy at night or by daytime, and that touch would oblige him to buy it. In the Munabadha, one man throws his garment at another and the latter throws his at the former and the barter is complete and valid without examining the two objects or being satisfied with them (B) The two ways of wearing clothes were Ishtimal-as-Samma, i e., to cover one's shoulder with one's garment and leave the other bare: and the other way was to wrap oneself with a garment while one was sitting in such a way that nothing of that garment would cover one's private part.
Hadith Reference صحيح البخاري / كتاب اللباس / 5820
Hadith Grading محدثین: أحاديث صحيح البخاريّ كلّها صحيحة
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Explanation & Benefits
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
(1)
In the era of ignorance (Jahiliyyah), this type of buying and selling was common among the Arabs. Islam prohibited it because it involved deception. Similarly, among them, there was a particular manner of sitting in gatherings, which has been clarified in the hadith.

(2)
In this manner of sitting, the private parts would become exposed; therefore, the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) forbade it. If, in the posture of ihtiba’ (sitting with the knees drawn up and arms wrapped around them), proper covering is observed, then sitting in this way is permissible. And Allah knows best.
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 5820
Maulana Dawood Raz
Hadith Commentary:
This hadith has already been mentioned in connection with the previous hadith.
Imam Bukhari rahimahullah has brought this hadith here because it contains the prohibition of Bay‘ Mulaamasah and Bay‘ Munabadha.
Source: Sahih Bukhari: Commentary by Maulana Dawood Raz, Page: 2147
Shaykh Abdul Sattar al-Hammad
Hadith Commentary:
Manabadhah is when each of the seller and the buyer throws his garment towards the other, and neither of them examines or inspects the other’s garment; yet, the sale becomes finalized in this manner.

In the era of ignorance (Jahiliyyah), this type of transaction was common, and in addition to ignorance and deception, it also contained an element of gambling.

The form of gambling in this was that it would be agreed between the seller and the buyer that, “What I have, I will throw towards you, and what you have, you throw towards me.”

Thus, the sale would be concluded on this condition, and neither party would know what and how much goods the other possessed.

The Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) prohibited this type of transaction.

(Fath al-Bari: 4/454)
Source: Hidayat al-Qari: Commentary on Sahih Bukhari, Urdu, Page: 2147