If the buyer is solvent but absent from the city by a distance that allows for travel shortening the journey (*masafat al-qasr*), what is the seller's recourse after delivery?
Chapter on Selling the Musarrah (Animal with milk retained in udder)
Al-Mughni
Book of Sales
Primary text
The seller has the option either to wait until the buyer returns with the price or to rescind the contract (*faskh*), because the delivery of the price has become impossible for him, treating the situation like bankruptcy.
Supporting text
A second view holds that the seller has no option to rescind because a distance shorter than the shortening-journey distance is treated as if the buyer were present.