Manipulating the price to deceive another buyer

Question

Question: Khalid deals in goats in Pakistan and receives brokerage. Brokerage is of two kinds: (1) He agrees with the goat owner: “I will arrange the sale of your goats, and for each goat I want fifty rupees.” They agree on this, and for every goat whose sale he arranges he collects fifty rupees from the goat owner. (2)

Answer

The first kind is permissible. The second kind is payment for deceit and fraud; it is impermissible. A prohibition of such fraud has come in the noble hadith.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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