A man who lends a loan to another

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), concerning a man who lends another man dirhams and then takes foodstuff in place of their value: he disliked it.

Sa'id bin Jubayr (may Allah have mercy on him), Hammad and Ikrimah (may Allah have mercy on him) saw no harm in doing this.

Tawus said: When the original claim is a debt (that is, its term is fixed), take only that for which you sold it; and if it is a loan (with no fixed term), there is no harm in taking something of a different kind from what you lent.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If a man is owed some dirhams as a loan by another man, and he comes to him and demands repayment, and the debtor says: Keep in exchange for it barley, wheat, dates or anything other than gold, there is no harm. When his dirhams are a loan owed by the other, he may take from him in exchange whatever he wishes.

Ibn Harmalah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I sold a she-camel on the condition that I would receive dirhams in exchange on the day of the harvest. When the time for delivery came, they paid me in wheat, barley and sult (hull-less barley), so I asked Sa'id bin al-Musayyib (may Allah have mercy on him). He said: This is not proper; do not take anything other than dirhams.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: If a man is owed a debt by another man, there is no harm in his taking from him (in exchange for it) a cheap slave.