Muwatta 2141

Yahya said: I also heard Malik say: the practice among us is that when two men differ over a pledge, one of them pledges it to the other, and the pledgor says: I pledged it to you for ten dinars; and the pledgee says: I took it from you for twenty dinars, and the pledge is visibly in the pledgee's hand. Malik said: the pledgee swears until he covers the value of the pledge. If there is neither increase nor decrease over what he swore he had in it, the pledgee takes his right, and he has the better claim to swear first, since he took the pledge and holds it, unless the owner of the pledge wishes to pay him the right he swore to and take back his pledge. ¹

Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Judgments. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi, Malik ibn Anas. Built on in the chapters on pledge (rahn) and judgment (qada).