I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say, "Whoever buys palm trees after they have been pollinated, their fruit belongs to the seller unless the buyer stipulates otherwise. And whoever buys a slave, his property belongs to the seller unless the buyer stipulates otherwise."
سمعت رسول الله ﷺ يقول: من ابتاع نخلا بعد أن تؤبر فثمرتها للذي باعها إلا أن يشترط المبتاع، ومن ابتاع عبدا فماله للذي باعه إلا أن يشترط المبتاع.
Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Loans (2379), and Muslim in the Book of Sales (1543:80), both of them through the route of Layth, from Ibn Shihab Zuhri, from Salim, from his father Abdullah, and he mentioned it.Ahmad (4552), Abu Dawud (3433), Nasai (4636), and Ibn Majah (2211) narrated it, and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (4923), all of them from the hadith of Sufyan, from Ibn Shihab, with the same wording. Muslim referred to the narration of Sufyan and referred back to the narration of Layth, saying, "With the same wording."Likewise, Yunus narrated it from Ibn Shihab, who said, "Salim bin Abdullah bin Umar told me that his father said, 'I heard the Messenger of Allah ﷺ say,'" with the same wording. Muslim narrated it from Harmala bin Yahya, who said, Ibn Wahb informed us, who said, Yunus informed me, and he mentioned it, referring back to the wording of the hadith of Layth.So these three narrated from Ibn Shihab, from Salim, from his father, from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, combining in the account both the palm trees and the slave.Shafii narrated it in Umm (2/40) from Sufyan, from Zuhri. He mentioned in it only the palm trees.There is another route from Ibn Umar, that a man bought palm trees whose owner had already pollinated them, so he took the dispute to the Prophet ﷺ, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ ruled that the fruit belonged to the owner who had pollinated it, unless the buyer stipulated otherwise. Ahmad narrated it (4852) from Yazid, who said, Hammad bin Salama informed us, from Ikrima bin Khalid Makhzumi, from Ibn Umar, and he mentioned it.Bayhaqi narrated it (5/325) through another route from Qatada, from Ikrima bin Khalid, and he said, "This is disconnected." It has also been narrated from Hisham Dastawai, from Qatada, from Ikrima bin Khalid, from Zuhri, from Ibn Umar, from the Prophet ﷺ, and he said, "It seems he meant the hadith of Zuhri, from Salim, from his father."I say, through the route of Hisham Dastawai, Nasai narrated it in Kubra (4994), and said, "Similar to the hadith of Ibn Uyayna, from Zuhri" (from Salim, from Ibn Umar, as in the Sahihayn).