Chapter: Waiving Payment in the case of Blight
Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbade the sale of the fruit of date-palms until it becomes mellow. We (some of the other narrators in the chain of transmitters) said: What does the word mellow mean? He said: (There the fruit) turns red or yellow. Don't you see if Allah had checked (the growth of) fruits; then what for the wealth of your brother would be permissible for you?
Anas b. Malik (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbade the sale of fruits until these are mellow. They (the companions of Anas) said: What is meant by mellow ? He said: It implies that these became red. He said: When Allah hinders the growth of fruits, (then) what for the wealth of your brother would become permissible for you?
Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) as saying: If Allah does not fructify them, then what is permissible for one of you to take the wealth of his brother?
Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah's Apostle ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) commanded to make deductions in the payment of that stricken with a Calamity.
Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (Allah be pleeased with him) reported that in the time of Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) a man suffered loss in fruits he had bought and his debt increased; so Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) told (the people) to give him charity and they gave him charity, but that was not enough to pay the debt in full, whereupon Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said to his creditors: Take what you find, you will have nothing but alms.
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Bukair b. al-Ashajj with the same chain of transmitters.