Tranaction of Defective and Faultless Commodities with the Same Weight
Issue No.1767- If one of the two kinds of the same commodity is defective and the other one is faultless, or one of them is superior and the other one inferior, or their prices differ for some other reasons, and the seller gives, for example, ten kilos of superior or faultless wheat, and takes fifteen kilos of inferior or faulted wheat, even then it is usury and haram. Hence, if a person gives manufactured gold and takes a larger quantity of raw gold, or gives manufactured copper and gets more of broken copper, or gives high quality rice and takes more of a lower quality rice, this is then considered usury and haram. Similarly, if he takes a commodity that is different from the one he is selling in addition to the undesired thing being sold; such as selling ten kilos of superior wheat against ten kilos of undesired wheat plus five dollars cash in hand. This is considered as usury and haram. Rather, if he does not take anything in excess but attach a condition to the transaction that the buyer would perform some act for him, it is also usury and is haram.
