So the representative came to know that he had priced it...

So the representative came to know that he had priced it high (by giving out less measure) with the measurement, to the extent that it (prices came down) to one with one’.

Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from one of his companions, raising it, ‘Regarding the Words of Allah -azwj Mighty and Majestic [11:84] surely I see you with prosperity , he -asws said: ‘Their prices used to be low’.

A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad Bin Khalid, from Ismail Bin Mihran, from Hammad Bin Usman who said, ‘The people of Al-Medina were hit by high prices and a drought to the extent that the affluent used to mix the wheat with the barley and he would eat it, and they would buy only part of the food (required), and there was good quality food with Abu Abdullah -asws which he -asws had bought it at the beginning of the year.

So he -asws said to one of his -asws adherents: ‘Buy some barley for us -asws so I -asws can mix it with this food, otherwise sell it, for we -asws do not like it that we -asws should eat good quality food while the people eat the perished (food)’.