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Summary
Malik says of a man who buys a slave and hires him out for a large hire or a small return, and then finds a defect in him for which he may return him: he returns him for that defect, and the hire and the return are his. This is the agreed practice in our city. If a man buys a slave and builds a house for him, whose building is worth many times the price of the slave, and then finds a defect for which he may return him, he returns him, and the slave's labour for him is not counted against him. Likewise, the hire belongs to him when he hires him out to someone else, because he is the guarantor of him. 1
Place in the museum
Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Sales. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on defects and hire.
Connections
- Part of
- Muwatta, Book of Sales (buyu')
- Mentions
- Malik ibn Anas
- Basis for
- defect (ayb)· Lease and hire (ijara)
People and things also explored
Muwatta 1782· Muwatta 1837· Muwatta 1839· Muwatta 1841· Muwatta 2004· Muwatta 2006· Muwatta 1781· Muwatta 1783
Sources
- Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf) , p.137
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islam.museum contributors. “Muwatta 1799”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/passage/muwatta-17-1799/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-17.