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1309. [Ibn 'Umar narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: "Procrastination (in paying a debt) by a rich person is oppression. So if your debt is transferred from your debtor you should agree, and do not make two sales in one sale.” (Sahīh) [Abū ‘Eisā said:] The Hadīth of Abū Hurairah (no. 1308) is a Ḥasan Sahīh Hadīth. And its meaning is that when the debt of one of you is transferred then agree. Some of the people of knowledge said when a man is offered to transfer his debt to a rich man and he does so, then the transferor is free of it, he is not to seek its return from the transferor. This is the view of Ash-Shāfi‘ī, Aḥmad, and Ishāq. Some of the people of knowledge said: “When this wealth could not be collected due to bankruptcy of the one it was transferred to, then he may seek its return to the first one.” They argue for this view with the saying of ‘Uthmān and others, when they said: “There is nothing due on a Muslim’s wealth that is lost.” Ishāq said: “The meaning of this Hadīth: ‘There is nothing due on a Muslim’s wealth that is lost’ this is when a man transfers it to another whom he thinks is wealthy, then he becomes bankrupt, so there is nothing due on the Muslim’s wealth that is lost.”