Hadith 33200

Malik said, "The generally agreed on way of doing things among usis that some one who buys some fruit, fresh or dry, should not resellit until he gets full possession of it. He should not barter things ofthe same type, except hand to hand. Whatever can be made into dryfruit to be stored and eaten, should not be bartered for its own kind,except hand to hand, like for like, when it is the same kind of fruit.In the case of two different kinds of fruit, there is no harm inbartering two of one kind for one of another, hand to hand on thespot. It is not good to set delayed terms. As for produce which is notdried and stored but is eaten fresh like water melon, cucumber, melon,carrots, citron, medlars, pomegranates, and soon, which when dried nolonger counts as fruit, and is not a thing which is stored up as isfruit, I think that it is quite proper to barter such things two forone of the same variety hand to hand. If no term enters into it, thereis no harm in it."