686. Narrated 'Urwa Al-Bariqi {4} : The Prophet ~ gave him a Dinar to buy a sacrificial animal or a sheep. He bought two sheep with it, sold one of them for a Dinar and came back to him with a goat and a Dinar. So he invoked blessings on him in his business dealings, {5} and he was such that if he had bought soil (of the earth) he would have made a profit from it. [Reported by Al-Kbamsa except An-Nasa'i. AlBukhari also recorded it within another Haditb but did not report its exact wording. At-Tirmidhi reported a Shahid (supporting narration of similar meaning) for it from the Haditb of Hakim bin Hizam].
{4} He is Ibn Ja'ad or Ibn Abii Ja'ad and it is said that his father was called 'Iyiid Al-Bariqi, a sub-clan of the tribe of Azd who is Bariq bin 'Adi bin Haritha . He was called Bariq because he settled on a mountain called Bariq. 'Urwa was a Sababi who served 'Umar as the Qadt of Kufa, settling there and his Ahadtth were narrated by the people of Kufa.
{5} This Hadith makes clear four things:
i) That the attorney is empowered to operate the wealth of his trustee.
ii) That with the consent and approval of another person his property and goods can be sold.
iii) That it is permissible to sell a sacrificial animal and buy another in its place, but this trade should not be for the purpose of profit. If there is any profit in this business, it should be given in charity.
