Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3864
أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ مَنْصُورٍ، سَمِعْتُ مُجَاهِدًا، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ أُسَيْدِ بْنِ ظُهَيْرٍ، قَالَ أَتَانَا رَافِعُ بْنُ خَدِيجٍ فَقَالَ نَهَانَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَنْ أَمْرٍ كَانَ لَنَا نَافِعًا وَطَاعَةُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم خَيْرٌ لَكُمْ نَهَاكُمْ عَنِ الْحَقْلِ وَقَالَ " مَنْ كَانَتْ لَهُ أَرْضٌ فَلْيَمْنَحْهَا أَوْ لِيَدَعْهَا ". وَنَهَى عَنِ الْمُزَابَنَةِ. وَالْمُزَابَنَةُ الرَّجُلُ يَكُونُ لَهُ الْمَالُ الْعَظِيمُ مِنَ النَّخْلِ فَيَجِيءُ الرَّجُلُ فَيَأْخُذُهَا بِكَذَا وَكَذَا وَسْقًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ.
Muhammad ibn al-Muthanna reported to us: Muhammad narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Mansur, who said: I heard Mujahid narrating from Usayd ibn Zuhayr, who said: Rafiʿ ibn Khadij came to us and said: “The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade us something that had been beneficial to us, but obedience to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ is better for you. He forbade you from al-haql and said: ‘Whoever has land should grant it or leave it.’ He also forbade muzabanah. Muzabanah is when a man has a large amount of date palms, then another man comes and takes them for such-and-such wasqs of dates.”
Translation notes
Al-haql is a form of land sharecropping; muzabanah is described here as exchanging standing date fruit for a fixed quantity of dates. A wasq is a traditional measure of volume.