Islamic Fiqh > Financial transactions > Khiyar: cancellation options in sale
Withdrawing or returning the goods: the session, defect, description and condition khiyars, with their evidence.
The khuyar are rights to cancel or confirm a concluded sale, grounded on mutual consent (sura an-Nisa 29). The option of the session ends at the separation of bodies for the Shafi'is and Hanbalis; the Hanafis and Malikis do not hold it (al-Bukhari 2079, Muslim 1532). The option of stipulation, agreed for a known period, gathers the scholars' agreement in sales without riba (al-Bukhari 2117, Muslim 1533), but not in the exchange of riba goods nor in salam for the majority of scholars. The option of defect finally allows the buyer to return the good or keep it.
Updated on 07 October 2026 at 6:42 PM
Khiyar in sale: the option of the assembly, the defect option, the quality option, and everything that dissolves the contract.
Minah al-Jalil by al-Dardir · Maliki school
(Chapter) The option (khiyar) exists only by a condition.
Chapter: the sale with a condition of option. (Chapter) on the sale with a condition of option.
Bada'i al-Sana'i by al-Kasani · Hanafi school
As for (the case) where one of the two buys through a corrupt purchase, in that the seller says: I sell you one of these two slaves for such a price, without mentioning any option at all: the buyer then owns neither of them before taking possession, for the corrupt sale does not confer ownership before taking possession; if he takes possession of both, he owns one of them with a corrupt ownership, and whichever of them perishes.