Hadith 44

Mishkat al-Masabih

Book 11: Business Transactions

Chapter 3

Conditional Bargains* - Section 1

باب الخيار - الفصل الأول

Translator's Note: * The word used is khiyar which means "choice”. That does not seem a very suitable word in English to indicate the subject of the chapter, as it is rather vague, and so I have taken the liberty of using a more explanatory phrase. The chapter deals with the kind of transaction where either party has in certain circumstances the right to annul it. "Option” would have been a good translation, but I wish to use this as part of the translation of shuf'a in Chapter 12.
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وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «لَا يَتَفَرَّقَنَّ اثْنَانِ إِلَّا عنْ تراضٍ» . رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد
Abu Huraira reported the Prophet as saying, “Two people must separate only by mutual consent.” Abu Dawud transmitted it.