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“Allaah has made all trade allowable and forbidden all forms of
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interest,”
refers only to correct forms of trade. Statements from the Sunnah have excluded
certain categories of trade and classified them as being corrupt. Ibn ‘Umar
reported that Allaah’s Messenger (r) forbade trade in “the semen of male
animals” 89 and also forbade the sale of “a pregnant animal’s progeny before its
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delivery.” Ibn ‘Umar explained that in pre-Islaamic times a man would sell the
offspring of a she-camel not yet born of an existing she-camel.
There are a few cases wherein hadeeths of the Prophet (r) have been made
specific by verses of the Qur’aan. A good example of this type of takhsees is the
hadeeth narrated by the sahaabee Aboo Waaqid al-Laythee, who reported that the
Prophet (r) said,
(. ﹲﺔﹶﺘﻴﻤ ﻭﻬﹶﻓ ﹲﺔﻴﺤ ﻲ ِ ﻫﻭ ٍﺔﻤﻴِﻬﺒ ﻥِﻤ ﻊِﻁﹸﻗ ﺎﻤ )
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“Whatever (maa) is cut off of a living animal is considered carrion.”
The general meaning of this statement would require that even wool or hair
removed from a live animal be forbidden to Muslims. However, Allaah revealed
the following verse which qualifies the Prophet’s statement,
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Soorah al-Baqarah (2):275.
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Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol. 3, p. 267, no. 484.
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Collected by al-Bukhaaree (Sahih Al-Bukhari, vol. 3, p. 199, no. 353) and Muslim (Sahih
Muslim, vol. 3, p. 798, no. 3615).
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Collected by Aboo Daawood (Sunan Abu Dawud, vol. 2, p. 803, no. 2852), Ibn Maajah and ad-
Daarimee and authenticated by al-Albanee in Saheeh Sunan Abee Daawood, vol. 2, p. 552, no.
2485.
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