Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah

Hazrat Zaid bin Thabit (may Allah be pleased with him) and Hazrat Zubair bin Al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) did not consider it objectionable that a person buys the fruit on a tree and then sells it to someone else before harvesting it.

Hazrat Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with both of them) used to dislike this.

Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, said that when a person buys fruit on a tree, he should not sell it to someone else until he has taken possession of it.

Hazrat Ikrimah disliked that a person buys fruit on a tree and then sells it before cutting it.

Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said that if a person buys fruit on a tree and sells it to someone else before cutting it, there is no harm in it. Muhammad (may Allah have mercy on him) used to say that in our time there is no harm in this. Then, when people started asking him a lot about this matter, he said: Leave that which puts you in doubt for that which does not put you in doubt.

Hazrat Thalabah bin Farat Ansari (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I sold cloth to some people of a tribe and kept money as collateral for a specific period. When the appointed time was completed, I bought date trees from them in exchange for that money and took possession of them. I dried the fruit on the tree itself; when the clusters formed and bore fruit, I picked them. Then those who had sold to me came to me and showed interest in that fruit. I sold that fruit to them for a fixed period. People talked a lot about this matter, so I asked Hazrat Salim (may Allah have mercy on him) about it and narrated the whole story to him. He asked, "Did you have in your heart the intention to sell it to them again?" I replied, "No, by Allah, this thought never even crossed my mind." He said, "Then there is no harm." Then I asked Hazrat Qasim (may Allah have mercy on him). He also asked, "Did you have in your heart the intention to sell it to them again?" I replied, "No, by Allah, this thought never even came to my mind." He (may Allah have mercy on him) said, "Then there is no harm."

Hazrat Ikrimah was asked if a person buys a date palm tree. He replied that until the fruit is harvested, he should not sell it further.