Transacting Barely with Wheat
Issue No.1773- From the point of usury, barley and wheat are commodities of one and the same sort. Hence, one cannot exchange 10 kgs of wheat for 12 kgs of barley, and vice versa. Even if one buys 10 kgs of barley on the condition that he would give in exchange 10 kgs of wheat at the time of its harvest, it is also haram, because he has taken barley on the spot and will give wheat some time later, and this amounts to taking something in excess.
