Right to Declare the Price – Owner Has Priority
Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri
❖ Question:
Who has more right to declare the price of an item — the seller or the buyer?
❖ Answer:
The seller (owner) has more right to declare the price, because the item belongs to him.
Scholarly Statements
❀ ʿAllāmah Ibn Baṭṭāl (رحمه الله, d. 449H) said:
لا خلاف بين الأمة أن صاحب السلعة أحق الناس بالسوم فى سلعته، وأولى بطلب الثمن فيها .
“There is no difference of opinion in the Ummah that the owner of the goods is the most entitled to set the price of his goods and to demand its value.”
(Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī: 6/235)
❀ This was also the fatwā of Imām Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (رحمه الله).
(Masāʾil al-Imām Aḥmad – narration of Ibn Abī Ḥarb al-Jarjarāʾī, p. 56)
Conclusion:The right to declare and demand the price of an item belongs first and foremost to its owner, as it is his property.
