Hoarding (ihtikar)

Hoarding (ihtikar), for al-Maraghi, is withholding goods to shrink supply, raise prices and let the hoarder dictate sales — the crisis-time "black market," its practitioner a diseased limb of the community ¹. He cites the hadith "whoever hoards is a sinner," while noting in the margin that some of the chapter's wording is weak ¹. From Ibn Hajar al-Haytami: the ruler may compel the hoarder to sell in necessity ²; from Abu Yusuf: hoarding covers not only food but medicine, clothing, fuel and building materials ³.

The speaker mentions Muslims in Canada, the United States, Australia, South-East Asia, Europe and Africa, in the course of describing their conditions (needs_source: no figure or source is given for the number of Muslims in that sentence) ⁴. In the same passage he mentions a figure of 1920 and three scholars; in his remarks on hoarding he gives "180 dollars" and tells of a man who died four years earlier and refused an inheritance of 73 million dollars (needs_source: the figures and the story are not traced to a source and are not written here as facts) ⁵.