Chapter: The prohibition of proposing marriage when ones brother has already proposed, unless he gives permission or gives up the idea

None amongst you should outbid another in a transaction, nor should he make proposals of marriage upon the proposal made by someone else.

A person should not enter into a transaction when his brother (had already entered into but not finalised), and he should not make proposal of marriage upon the proposal already made by his brother, until he permits it.

The above hadith has been narrated by Ibn Umar through another chain.

A hadith like this has been reported on the authority of Nafi' with the same chain of transmitters.

" The person should not purchase in opposition to his brother."

Do not outbid in a sale in order to ensnare. No man should enter into a transaction in which his brother has already entered, and no dweller of the town should sell on behalf of the villager. And no man should make a proposal of marriage which his brother has already made and no woman should ask for the divorce of another (co-wife) in order to deprive her of what belongs to her.

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Zuhri with the same chain of transmitters but with a slight alteration.

The Muslim should not purchase in opposition to his brother, and he should not make the proposal of marriage on the proposal already made by his brother.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.

A believer is the brother of a believer, so it is not lawful for a believer to outbid his brother, and he should not propose an engagement when his brother has thus proposed until he gives it up.