[Taking Some Goods from the Neighboring Shop]

Mufti:

Alsayyed Muhammad b. Abdallah Awad Al-Muayyady

تاريخ النشر: January 14, 2026

Fatwa number: 20199

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[Taking Some Goods from the Neighboring Shop]

Fatwa number: 20199

Question: A client comes to me and gives me a list of goods he needs. I gather what he requested, and there may remain one item or more that I do not have. I buy it from my neighbor and issue him a single sales invoice for all of it, knowing that I sell the missing item at the market price. Is that permissible or not—bearing in mind that my neighbor and I have agreed that whoever is missing something may take it from the other?

The answer—and Allah is the granter of success—is that what you described is permissible, and it does not fall under what is prohibited in the hadith: “Do not sell what you do not possess,” because you only sold what you had, as your neighbor had given you permission to take what you lacked.
Source: Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.2