Scene 01
Your stall
Fictional scenario. You sell cloth in a busy market in a 12th-century Mediterranean port. Your name is your business: buyers come back — or don't — based on what they've heard about you.
This morning you unroll a fine bolt of dyed linen and find a hidden flaw: a water stain deep inside the roll. A buyer would only find it after cutting.
§Religious teaching
Disclosure of defects
A hadith reports that the Prophet put his hand into a pile of grain, found it wet underneath, and said that whoever cheats is not of us. Jurists drew from this a duty to disclose known defects.
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Your decision
A wealthy buyer wants the whole bolt at full price.
