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1304. Abū Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: "Do not practice An-Najsh." (Sahih)
[He said:] There are narrations on this topic from Ibn 'Umar and Anas.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] The Hadīth of Abū Hurairah is a Hasan Sahih Hadīth. This is acted upon according to the people of knowledge, they disliked An-Najsh.
[Abū 'Eisā said:] An-Najsh is when a man who knows about the goods comes to the owner of the goods to offer him more than what it is worth, doing so in the presence of a buyer. He intends to seduce the buyer while he himself does not want to buy it, rather he only wants to deceive the buyer with his offer. And this is a type of deceit.
Ash-Shāfi'ī said: "If a man commits An-Najsh then he has sinned due to what he has done, but the sale is permissible, because the buyer did not commit An-Najsh."
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The literal meaning of 'An-Najsh' is to drive away the wild animals, but in the Shari'ah it means to seduce the buyer by offering higher price of the thing, and posing as he is also a buyer, but actually he does not want to buy the thing. So the offer of the higher price is just to seduce the buyer.
