He was traveling on a camel of his that had grown exhausted, and he intended to set it loose. He said, the Prophet ﷺ caught up with me, prayed for me, and struck the camel, and it then traveled at a pace it had never traveled before.The Prophet ﷺ said, "Sell it to me for an ounce of silver."I said, "No."Then he said again, "Sell it to me."So I sold it to him for an ounce of silver, on the condition that I could ride it home to my family. When I reached home, I brought him the camel, and he paid me its price. Then I went back, and he sent someone after me and said, "Did you think I bargained with you in order to take your camel? Take your camel and your money, both are yours."
أنه كان يسير على جمل له قد أعيا، فأراد أن يسيبه. قال: فلحقني النبي ﷺ، فدعا لي، وضربه، فسار سيرا لم يسر مثله. قال: بعنيه بوقية، قلت: لا. ثم قال: بعنيه. فبعته بوقية، واستثنيت عليه حملانه إلى أهلي، فلما بلغت أتيته بالجمل، فنقدني ثمنه، ثم رجعت فأرسل في إثري، فقال: أتراني ماكستك لآخذ جملك، خذ جملك ودراهمك فهو لك.
Bukhari related it in the Chapter of Conditions (2718), and Muslim in the Chapter of Sharecropping (715:109), through the route of Zakariya, who said, I heard Amir (that is, Shaybi) say, Jabir bin Abdullah narrated to me, and he mentioned it. The wording given here is Muslim's. Bukhari added, Shubah said, from Mughira, from Amir, from Jabir, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ let me ride on its back until Madinah."Ishaq said, from Jareer, from Mughira, "So I sold it to him on condition that I keep the use of its back until I reach Madinah." The phrase "the vertebrae of its back" is a figure of speech for riding on its back. It is said, "I let the man ride" (afqartu), meaning I lent him that. Fiqar is the plural of fiqarah, which refers to the vertebrae of the spine.Ataa and others said, "Its back is yours until Madinah." Muhammad bin Munkadir said, from Jabir, "He made a condition that its back be his until Madinah." Zayd bin Aslam said, from Jabir, "Its back is yours until you return." Abu Zubayr said, from Jabir, "We let you ride its back until Madinah." Amash said, from Salim, from Jabir, "You may ride it until you reach your family."Abu Abdullah said, the version with the stipulated condition is more common, and in my view more sound.Ubaydullah and Ibn Ishaq said, from Wahb, from Jabir, "The Prophet ﷺ bought it for one uqiyyah." Zayd bin Aslam followed him in this, from Jabir. Ibn Jurayj said, from Ataa and others, from Jabir, "I took for it four dinars." This would amount to one uqiyyah calculated at ten dirhams per dinar. The price was not specified by Mughira, from Shaybi, from Jabir, nor by Ibn Munkadir and Abu Zubayr, from Jabir.Amash said, from Salim, from Jabir, "One uqiyyah of gold." Abu Ishaq said, from Salim, from Jabir, "Two hundred dirhams." Dawud bin Qays said, from Ubaydullah bin Miqsam, from Jabir, "He bought it on the road to Tabuk, I think he said, for four uqiyyahs." Abu Nadra said, from Jabir, "He bought it for twenty dinars."Shaybi's statement, "for one uqiyyah," is the more common report. The version with the stipulated condition is more common, and in my view more sound. This is what Abu Abdullah said.These suspended reports were traced back with full chains by Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari.The difference is not over whether the price of the mount was one uqiyyah, but rather over how that uqiyyah is reckoned in terms of dinars and dirhams. Whoever differs over the exact amount of the uqiyyah, the matter comes down to uncertainty, and Allah knows best.This shows that it is permissible to combine a sale with a condition, so long as the condition does not contradict the purpose of the contract, such as the seller saying, "I sell you this house on condition that you not sell it to anyone."