Narrated Usaid bin Zuhair: Rafi bin Khadij came to us and said: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم forbids you from a work which is beneficial to you ; and obedience to Allah and His Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم is more beneficial to you. The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم forbids you from renting land for share of its produce and he said: If anyone if not in need of his land he should lend it to his brother or leave it. Abu Dawud said: Shubah and Mufaddal bin Muhalhal have narrated it from Mansur in similar way. Shubah said (in his version): Usaid, nephew of Rafi b, Khadij.
Read More..Abu Jafar al-Khatmi said: My uncle sent me and his slave to Saeed ibn al-Musayyab. We said to him, there is something which has reached us about sharecropping. He replied: Ibn Umar did not see any harm in it until a tradition reached him from Rafi ibn Khadij. He then came to him and Rafi told him that the Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم came to Banu Harithah and saw crop in the land of Zuhayr. He said: What an excellent crop of Zuhayr is! They said: It does not belong to Zuhayr. He asked: Is this not the land of Zuhayr? They said: Yes, but the crop belongs to so-and-so. He said: Take your crop and give him the wages. Rafi said: We took our crop and gave him the wages. Saeed (ibn al-Musayyab) said: Lend your brother or employ him for dirhams.
Read More..Narrated Rafi ibn Khadij: The Messenger of Allah صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم forbade muhaqalah and muzabanah. Those who cultivate land are three: a man who has (his own) land and he tills it: a man who has been lent land and he tills the one lent to him; a man who employs another man to till land against gold (dinars) or silver (dirhams).
Read More..Abu Dawud said: I read out (this tradition) to Saeed bin Ya'qub al-Taliqini, and I said to him: Ibn al-Mubarak transmitted (this tradition) to you from Saeed Abi Shuja' who said: Uthman bin Sahl bin Rafi bin Khadij narrated it to me saying: I was an orphan being nourished under the guardianship of Rafi bin Khadij and I performed Hajj with him. My brother Imran bin Sahl then came to me and said: We rented out land to so-and-so for two hundred dirhams. He said: Leave it, for the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم forbade renting land.
Read More..Narrated Rafi ibn Khadij: Rafi had cultivated a land. The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم passed him when he was watering it. So he asked him: To whom does the crop belong, and to whom does the land belong? He replied: The crop is mine for my seed and labour. The half (of the crop) is mine and the half for so-and-so. He said: You conducted usurious transaction. Return the land to its owner and take your wages and cost.
Read More..Narrated Rafi ibn Khadij: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If anyone sows in other people's land without their permission, he has no right to any of the crop, but he may have what it cost him.
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