or by a lawful water allotment; then if that water is wrongfully seized, sinks away, or its flow diminishes so that the crop suffers and the fruit is destroyed through the loss of water, the entire loss—whether small or great—falls upon the seller, and the one-third rule is not considered. This is because the disappearance of the water relates to the very basis upon which the fruit was purchased, not to some external factor that later befell it. If, however, this fruit is ruined for a reason unrelated to water, the one-third threshold is observed, just as with other produce.

The blight allowance applies to sales made for ready cash as well as those concluded on credit. Blight (jāʾiḥa) includes every calamity caused by fire, a blasting wind, severe frost, hail, rain, rot, locusts, or the depredations of armies—all of these are counted as blight. Theft, according to the majority of scholars, is not deemed blight for which the judge will grant remission.