Question 782) - Give some examples.

A: The sale of something non-existent or that which has no monetary value is Batil such as blood and carrion [except fish and locustl; camel sperm, camel foetus, fruits which haven grown yet, an animal which was slaughtered and Bismillaah deliberately omitted ,carrion hide before tanning, a slaughtered sheep joined with a sheep which died naturally, human hair [out of respect it is void], pig hair [due to its filth], human excreta for as long as it is not consumed by earth, selling that which the owner does not have in his ownership yetnunless by means of Salam, * fish which has not yet been caught, birds in the air, milk still in the udder, pearls still in the oyster, wool still on the sheep, wine, pigs, a slave joined with a free man just as selling the grass on a pasturage is void.*

* will be defined in a later chapter inshaAllaah.

* In view of the Hadith declaring it the common property of the people. Similarly it cannot be rented in that that will destroy a public possession. Most Mashaikh have however given permission when a man plants and waters it himself.

~Quduri ~