Do animals and household utensils fall under usury (riba), and is exchanging an animal for an animal considered usury?
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Selling a living animal for a living animal does not fall under usury (riba), whether the transaction is immediate (cash) or deferred (credit), or if there is a difference in quantity (disparate) or similarity (equal), because it is neither a measurable commodity nor a weighable one, and thus the conditions for usury do not apply to it. This is affirmed by the prophetic hadiths and the fatwas of scholars such as Al-Bassam, Ibn Uthaymeen, and the Permanent Committee, all of whom have agreed on the permissibility of selling an animal for an animal, even if disparate or on credit.
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