Chapter: The sale of a salam commodity among non-food items before it is taken into possession, whether the resale is by the original seller or by someone else.

Whoever has entered into a salam agreement for any merchandise—linen, cotton, safflower, wool, iron, copper, riding animals, slaves, garments, every kind of livestock and commodity, in fact anything other than food or drink—then, when the term of the salam falls due, may receive whatever he wishes: an inferior quality in kind, a lesser measure by volume, weight, or number, or, if he prefers, a superior quality in kind, or a greater measure by volume, weight, or number—however he wishes with respect to all of that—once the term has fallen due; and he must take possession of whatever he receives before