What is the validity of selling a measured length in a structure where the endpoint of the last unit is undefined?

Chapter on Selling Assets and Fruits

Al-Mughni

Book of Sales

Book 12 · Issue 6 · Bab 4

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If the seller states, 'Ten cubits, starting from here to here until where the cubit ends,' the sale is invalid because the cubit measure varies, and the location where the final cubit ends is unknown at the time of the contract.