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Non-Muslims (ahl al-dhimma) are like Muslims in trade matters. It is permitted for them to
sell wine and pigs.
The sale of a mute person is valid, and likewise other contracts, with understood signs.
The buying and selling of a blind person is valid--and they have the option to cancel upon
sighting. This option ends by feeling the item of sale, or smelling it, or tasting it--and in
property, after it is described to them.