A man who gives goods to another to trade with and then needs them

The narrator said: I asked Ata (may Allah have mercy on him): We carry these goods for people, and then we come to need them on the road. What is the ruling for us? May we take them? He said: When you reach your destination, will you buy for their owners what they need and not hold it back? I said: Of course. He said: Then there is no harm. It is better for the owner of the goods.

Al-Hasan was asked about a man who was given some dirhams to buy something with them. He spent those dirhams on his own needs, then returned them and bought with them the very thing he had been told to buy. He said: He is liable until he hands it over to its owner.