Ruling 2062 — Buying and Selling

Some disapproved transactions are as follows: 1. selling real estate, unless one buys another real estate with the money acquired from the transaction; 2. to be a butcher; 3. selling shrouds (kafans); 4. transactions with people of low character; 5. transactions between the start of the time for the morning (ṣubḥ) prayer and sunrise; 6. making one’s profession the buying and selling of wheat, barley, and suchlike; 7. intervening in someone else’s transaction in order to buy the goods that the other person wishes to buy.