Sunan Ibn Majah

Sunan Ibn Majah 2458

Arabic hadith text

حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الصَّبَّاحِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ يَحْيَى بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ حَنْظَلَةَ بْنِ قَيْسٍ، قَالَ سَأَلْتُ رَافِعَ بْنَ خَدِيجٍ قَالَ كُنَّا نُكْرِي الأَرْضَ عَلَى أَنَّ لَكَ مَا أَخْرَجَتْ هَذِهِ وَلِي مَا أَخْرَجَتْ هَذِهِ فَنُهِينَا أَنْ نُكْرِيَهَا بِمَا أَخْرَجَتْ وَلَمْ نُنْهَ أَنْ نُكْرِيَ الأَرْضَ بِالْوَرِقِ ‏.‏

Translation

Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us: Sufyan ibn Uyaynah narrated to us, from Yahya ibn Said, from Hanzalah ibn Qays, who said: I asked Rafi ibn Khadij. He said, “We used to rent land on the condition that you would take what this portion produced and I would take what that portion produced. We were forbidden to rent it on the basis of what it produced, but we were not forbidden to rent land for silver.”