LessonsRiba in Particular Exchanges: Flour, Meat, Dates, Oils and Composite GoodsQuiz

ويجوز بيع اللحم بالحيوان عند أبي حنيفة وأبي يوسف
Translation: According to Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf, meat may be sold in exchange for a live animal.

With weighed meat on one side and a live animal on the other, Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf allow the transaction in the classical formulation. They do not treat the living animal as simply an already-weighed quantity of meat; it also includes bones, hide and other parts.

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan imposes an additional condition where the meat belongs to the same type as the animal, in order to address a possible excess in the meat component. These are distinct Hanafi positions, not a unanimous ruling of the three imams.

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The original meat-for-live-animal disagreement

Riba in Particular Exchanges: Flour, Meat, Dates, Oils and Composite Goods

ويجوز بيع اللحم بالحيوان عند أبي حنيفة وأبي يوسف
Translation: According to Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf, meat may be sold in exchange for a live animal.

With weighed meat on one side and a live animal on the other, Abu Hanifa and Abu Yusuf allow the transaction in the classical formulation. They do not treat the living animal as simply an already-weighed quantity of meat; it also includes bones, hide and other parts.

Muhammad ibn al-Hasan imposes an additional condition where the meat belongs to the same type as the animal, in order to address a possible excess in the meat component. These are distinct Hanafi positions, not a unanimous ruling of the three imams.