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Islamic Laws - 4th Edition

Disapproved (makruh) Transactions

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.