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2264. It was narrated from 'Abdullāh bin Yazid, the freed slave of Al-Aswad bin Sufyān, that Zaid, Abu 'Ayyāsh, the freed slave of Banī Zuhrah, told him that he asked Sa'd bin Abu Waqqās about buying wheat with barley. Sa'd said to him: "Which of them is better?" He said: "Wheat." He told him not to do that and said: "I heard the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ being asked about buying fresh dates with dried dates, and he said: 'Do fresh dates decrease in weight when they become dry?' They said: 'Yes.' So he told them not to do that." (Hasan)
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Sult is a type of barley without any skin on it. It resembles wheat because of not having any skin; but its natural consumption quality is like barley. Anyhow it is counted from among the kinds of barley.
The exchange of fresh and dry dates for each other is forbidden even though the payment is made on the spot.
The dry and fresh dates apparently are the same class, and exchanging them for each other should be lawful, but this is not the case, and the reason of its prohibition is that they are not really equal in weight, despite their apparent look of equality in weight; because the fresh dates lose weight when they are dried.
