English translation
6977. Narrated 'Amr bin Ash-Sharīd: Al-Miswar bin Makhrama came and put his hand on my shoulder and I accompanied him to Sa'd. Abū Rāfi' said to Al-Miswar, "Won't you order this (i.e., Sa'd) to buy my house which is in my yard?" Sa'd said, "I will not offer more than four hundred in instalments over a fixed period." Abū Rāfi' said, "I was offered five hundred cash but I refused. Had I not heard the Prophet ﷺ saying, 'A neighbour is more entitled to receive the care of his neighbour,' I would not have sold it to you." The narrator said to Sufyān: Ma'mar did not say so. Sufyān said, "But he did say so to me." Some people said, "If someone wants to sell a house and deprived somebody of the right of pre-emption, he has the right to play a trick to render the pre-emption invalid. And that is by giving the house to the buyer as a present and marking its boundaries and giving it to him. The buyer then gives the seller one-thousand Dirham as compensation in which case the pre-emptor loses his right of pre-emption.”