Buying one hundred against a stipend

Shurayh saw no harm in a stipend being sold in exchange for goods.

He said: And al-Sha'bi said: It may not be bought, neither for goods nor for anything else.

According to Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both), the sale of a stipend for anything other than goods is disliked.

Al-Sha'bi was asked about buying the increment in a stipend. He said: I neither command it nor forbid it, but I keep myself and my children from it. The leaders of the Muslims have done it, and they were better than me.

Bakr bin Uthman said: In Khurasan I used to buy the increment in stipends in exchange for silk and dirhams. One year I performed Hajj and asked Salim about this, and he said: There is no harm in it if it is for goods, but for dirhams I consider it disliked.

(Bakr bin Uthman said:) And I asked Muhammad bin Ka'b al-Qurazi, and he said something similar.

(Bakr bin Uthman said:) And I asked Ata, and he said something similar.

(Bakr bin Uthman said:) And I asked al-Hasan and Ibn Sirin, and they said: We consider it disliked for dirhams, but we see no harm in it for goods.

Ibrahim bin Dawud said: I asked al-Hasan and Muhammad (Ibn Sirin) about selling a stipend, and they said: You may sell it for goods.