plainly self-contradictory.

This also applies when people need someone to grind grain and bake bread for them because they cannot grind and bake in their homes as the people of Medina did in the time of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him. They had no one who ground grain or baked bread for payment, nor anyone who sold flour or bread. Rather, they bought grain and ground it and baked it in their homes. They therefore had no need for price regulation. Those who brought grain would sell it, and people would buy it from these suppliers. Hence the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said:

“The supplier is granted provision, while the hoarder is accursed.”

He also said:

“None but a sinner hoards.”

Muslim reported this in his Sahīh.

As for the report narrated from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that “he prohibited the miller’s qafīz (measure),” it is a weak hadith—indeed, a baseless one. There was no miller or baker in Medina, since its people had no need for such services. Likewise, when the Muslims conquered the lands, all the farmers were unbelievers, because the Muslims were occupied with jihad.

For this reason, when the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, conquered Khaybar, he entrusted it to the Jews to cultivate, because the Companions were unable to farm it themselves. Doing so would have required them to live there. Those who conquered it were the participants in the Pledge of Divine Pleasure, who had pledged allegiance beneath the tree. They numbered approximately fourteen hundred and were joined by those aboard Jaʿfar’s ship. These were the people among whom the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, divided the land of Khaybar. Thus, had there remained