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Prohibition OfThe Price Of A Dog, ThePayment (Given) to AProstitute, The PaymentMade To A Soothsayer AndStudding A Stallion[1]

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Darussalam · Volume 3

12. The Chapters On Business Transactions

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الحديث: 2159 ¦ الجزء: 2 ¦ الصفحة: 730

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2159. It was narrated from Abu Mas'ud that the Prophet ﷺ forbade the price of a dog, the payment (given to a prostitute) and the payment made to a soothsayer. (Sahih)

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2159 - حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، وَمُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، قَالَا: حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ أَبِي مَسْعُودٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ «نَهَى عَنْ ثَمَنِ الْكَلْبِ، وَمَهْرِ الْبَغِيِّ، وَحُلْوَانِ الْكَاهِنِ»

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The trade of prohibited things is also prohibited. A Kāhin is a person who foretells about future events and claims to tell about the Unseen; fortune-tellers, palmists, astrologers, those making amulets and charms, those who open the book of omens, those who use parrots to choose a card of fortune, and other fortune card readers, all come under the term Kāhin. Some people (in the time of Ignorance) used to make their female slaves work as prostitutes and took it a source of income. Adultery (sexual relations out of marriage) is prohibited in Islam; whether this performed by paying money or in the name of love and friendship by mutual consent. Some people allowed trading in hunting dogs because of the permissibility of keeping them at home. According to this view, the trade in dogs, other than those for hunting is forbidden, because keeping them is impermissible. However, trade in any type of dogs should be avoided as precautionary measures and must not be practiced. Allāh ﷻ knows best!