Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3863
أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ آدَمَ - قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُفَضَّلٌ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ مُهَلْهَلٍ - عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ مُجَاهِدٍ، عَنْ أُسَيْدِ بْنِ ظُهَيْرٍ، قَالَ جَاءَنَا رَافِعُ بْنُ خَدِيجٍ فَقَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم نَهَاكُمْ عَنِ الْحَقْلِ - وَالْحَقْلُ الثُّلُثُ وَالرُّبُعُ - وَعَنِ الْمُزَابَنَةِ. وَالْمُزَابَنَةُ شِرَاءُ مَا فِي رُءُوسِ النَّخْلِ بِكَذَا وَكَذَا وَسْقًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ.
Muhammad ibn ʿAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak reported to us: Yahya—meaning Ibn Adam—narrated to us: Mufaddal—meaning Ibn Muhalhil—from Mansur, from Mujahid, from Usayd ibn Zuhayr, who said: Rafiʿ ibn Khadij came to us and said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade you from sharecropping on the basis of a third or a quarter, and from muzabanah. Muzabanah is buying the fruit on the date palms for a specified number of wasqs of dates.”
Translation notes
Muzabanah is a sale exchanging fruit still on the palm for dried dates. A wasq is a traditional measure of volume. The source glosses al-haql as a one-third or one-quarter share.