—yaḥlibu ḥalban, the verb following the same morphological pattern as qatala.

– “After”: al-Karmānī said it may mean “after this prohibition” or “after the seller has tied the udders,” the second interpretation being the stronger.

– “A sāʿ of dates”: i.e., the prophetic sāʿ, which in contemporary weights comes to about 3,000 grams of good-quality barley.

– “And a sāʿ of dates”: the phrase is in the accusative because of an implied verb, namely: “and he must return along with it one sāʿ of dates.”

– “Not reddish (wheat)” (lā samrāʾ), pronounced with a fatḥa then a sukun, refers to a particular kind of wheat—Syrian wheat. Al-ʿAynī notes that it was costlier than the wheat of the Ḥijāz, and Ibn al-Athīr in al-Nihāya states that al-samrāʾ is wheat. The negation means that he is not required to give wheat, since in the Ḥijāz it was more expensive than dates.