Al-Iqnaʿ states, “This ruling concerns brokerage in which the broker himself concludes the contract, as the cited rationale makes clear. As for merely calling out, displaying the goods, or bringing the customer, there is no disagreement that the partners may share in it.”

Shaykh Taqi al-Din said, “Its validity lies in the fact that the broker’s selling and buying are like the tailor’s sewing. The point of dispute is limited to a partnership in brokerage that entails concluding the contract itself. As for mere calling out, displaying, and bringing the customer, everyone agrees that it is permissible.”

5 – The narration proves that two partners may share whatever portion of booty either of them acquires; the same applies, by analogy, to other lawful types of work.

6 – Desire for booty during jihad does not lessen the reward of jihad so long as it is not the sole intention.

7 – The hadith affirms that booty is lawful for this ummah alone and that it is one of the noblest forms of livelihood. The Prophet said, “My sustenance has been placed under the shade of my spear” [Ahmad (4868)]. He also said, “Booty has been made lawful for me, and it was not lawful for anyone before me” [Bukhari (335)].

8 – A partnership contract entitles each partner to a share in what the other earns. The rest of the report reads: “Saʿd returned with two captives, whereas ʿAmmār and I brought nothing” [al-Nasāʾī (7/319)].

9 – Islam is the strongest bond and the firmest link among people. These three men, whom Islam united and made brothers sharing both profit and liability, each came from a different tribe: ʿAmmār was an ʿAbsī from Yemen, Saʿd a Zuhri from Quraysh, and Ibn Masʿūd a Hudhali from the environs of Mecca.