Buying and Selling: Disapproved Transactions

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Ayatullah Sistani

Ruling 2062

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.

-Ayatullah Sistani, Practical Laws of Islam, Buying and Selling