A man who sells food to another on a deferred term

Tawus said: When you sell grain for a fixed term and the term falls due, do not take grain.

He said: And Jabir bin Zayd Abu al-Sha'tha' said: When your debt falls due, take for it whatever you wish.

Muhammad bin Abdullah said: I said to Sa'id bin al-Musayyib: I sold dates to a man; may I buy dates with the price of my dates? He said: No, do not take any grain of what is measured or weighed.

Amir said: When you sell grain for a fixed term and your money falls due, take in exchange for it whatever goods you wish; but if you take grain, take only your own very grain.

Abu Salamah considered it disliked that a man should sell a flock to another man for a fixed term and, when the term comes, intend to take a flock and settle the account with it.

Al-Harith and Hammad considered it disliked that a man should sell a kurr of grain for forty on credit and then buy similar grain from him for less than forty.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: When you sell something that is measured or weighed for a fixed term and the term comes, do not take either of those two, but take something different from them.

Sa'id bin al-Musayyib and Sulayman bin Yasar said: If someone sells grain for gold for a fixed term, then when the term comes he should not take dates in exchange for it.

Ata said: Do not take it by measure.

Ibrahim bin Nafi' said: I asked Tawus: A man sold wheat to another for a fixed term; when the term came, may he take wheat in place of the dirhams? He said: No.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: There is no harm in taking wheat in place of the dirhams.

Ibn Sirin said: A man sold grain to another man for a fixed term; when the term came, the other had no dirhams: then he may take whatever he wishes.

Hammad said: Take whatever you wish.

Al-Sha'bi said: This would be grain for grain.

Ayyub said: Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) was asked: If a person sells goods for a fixed term and the term comes, may he take goods? He said: A man goes to his debtor and takes it from him. It was said to him: Is he selling grain and taking grain? He said: I say nothing about this.

Umar bin Abd al-Aziz gave a ruling concerning a person who dies owing grain to someone: grain is not to be taken.