Mishkat al-Masabih
Mishkat al-Masabih 2973
Tending palm-trees and Tilling land in return for some of the Produce - Section 1
Arabic hadith text
وَعنهُ قَالَ: كُنَّا نخبر وَلَا نَرَى بِذَلِكَ بَأْسًا حَتَّى زَعَمَ رَافِعُ ابْن خَدِيجٍ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَهَى عَنْهَا فَتَرَكْنَاهَا مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ. رَوَاهُ مُسلم
Translation
He said
We used to employ people to till land for a share of its produce* and see no harm in it till Rafi' b. Khadij asserted that the Prophet forbade it, so we abandoned it on that account.Muslim transmitted it.* Mukhabir. From this comes the verbal noun mukhabara. See p. 607.