In the lifetime of Allâh's Messenger (ﷺ) the people used to trade with fruits. When they cut their date-fruits and the purchasers came to receive their rights, the sellers would say, "My dates have got rotten; they are blighted with disease, they are afflicted with Qushâm (a disease which causes the fruit to fall before ripening)." They would go on complaining of defects in their purchases. Allâh's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do not sell the fruits before their benefit is evident (i.e. free from all the dangers of being spoiled or blighted), "by way of advice for they quarrelled too much. [Khârija bin Zaid bin Thâbit said that Zaid bin Thâbit used not to sell the fruits of his land till Pleiades appeared and one could distinguish the yellow fruits from the red (ripe) ones]. [3: Chap. 87 (after Hadith 397) -O.B]