If a Person Rents Something and Then Sublets It for a Higher Rent

Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with both of them) says regarding the person who hires a laborer and then gives him on hire to someone else for a higher wage, that the excess will go to the first person.

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

Ibrahim says that if a person rents a house and then rents it out to someone else for a higher rent, the excess amount should be returned.

It is narrated from Hazrat Saeed bin Al-Musayyib, Hazrat Abu Salamah bin Abdur Rahman, Hazrat Urwah bin Zubair, and Hazrat Sulaiman bin Yasar that if a person rents a house and then rents it out to someone else at a higher price, two of these individuals permitted it and two disliked it.

Hazrat Mujahid says that do not take extra payment on a house or animal that has been rented.

Hazrat Iyas bin Mu'awiyah, may Allah have mercy on him, said that when you rent a shop or a slave, do not rent it out for more than the rent you have paid.

Hazrat Shahr bin Hawshab disliked that a person would rent something and then lease it out to someone else for a higher rent.

Hazrat Ikrimah says that this is forbidden.

Ibrahim says that this is usury.

A person asked Hazrat Zuhri whether someone could rent something and then rent it out to another for a higher rent. He saw no harm in it. Later, when I asked him again, he disliked it.

Hazrat Maymoon also used to dislike this.

Ibrahim disliked that a person would rent a house and then sublet it for a higher rent. The narrator says: I asked Ibrahim, "If he does sublet it for a higher rent, to whom does the rent belong?" He replied, "To its owner."

Hazrat Ibn Sirin used to dislike this.

Muhammad, may Allah have mercy on him, says that our companions in Kufa dislike this and say: Neither will we buy nor sell it. Then how will we consume its wealth?

Hazrat Saeed bin Al-Musayyib and Hazrat Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) disliked that a person should rent something and then lease it out to someone else for a higher rent.

Hazrat Auf narrates that Hazrat Hisham bin Hubairah used to judge that if a person takes something on rent and then rents it out to someone else for a higher rent, then the excess is usury.

It is narrated in the same manner from Hazrat Mansoor.