Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 22503 — A man who buys date palms and sells

Tha'labah bin Abi al-Furat al-Ansari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I sold a garment to some people and took a pledge from them for a fixed term. When the appointed term was completed, I bought palm trees from them in return for what they owed me, took possession of them, and dried their fruit on the trees. Some bunches of it fell, and I picked them up. Then the people who had sold them to me came to me and showed a desire for that fruit, so I sold the fruit to them for a fixed term. People said a great deal about this, so I asked Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) about it and told him the whole story. He said: Was it in your mind that you would sell it back to those same people? I said: No, by Allah, the thought did not even cross my heart. He said: Then there is no harm.