Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3873
أَخْبَرَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ الْمُبَارَكِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ عَدِيٍّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادُ بْنُ زَيْدٍ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ دِينَارٍ، قَالَ كَانَ طَاوُسٌ يَكْرَهُ أَنْ يُؤَاجِرَ أَرْضَهُ بِالذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَلاَ يَرَى بِالثُّلُثِ وَالرُّبُعِ بَأْسًا فَقَالَ لَهُ مُجَاهِدٌ اذْهَبْ إِلَى ابْنِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ فَاسْمَعْ مِنْهُ حَدِيثَهُ. فَقَالَ إِنِّي وَاللَّهِ لَوْ أَعْلَمُ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم نَهَى عَنْهُ مَا فَعَلْتُهُ وَلَكِنْ حَدَّثَنِي مَنْ هُوَ أَعْلَمُ مِنْهُ. ابْنُ عَبَّاسٍ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِنَّمَا قَالَ " لأَنْ يَمْنَحَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ أَرْضَهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ عَلَيْهَا خَرَاجًا مَعْلُومًا " . وَقَدِ اخْتُلِفَ عَلَى عَطَاءٍ فِي هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ مَيْسَرَةَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ رَافِعٍ وَقَدْ تَقَدَّمَ ذِكْرُنَا لَهُ. وَقَالَ عَبْدُ الْمَلِكِ بْنُ أَبِي سُلَيْمَانَ عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنْ جَابِرٍ.
Muhammad ibn ʿAbdullah ibn al-Mubarak informed me: Zakariyya ibn ʿAdi narrated to us: Hammad ibn Zayd narrated to us, from ʿAmr ibn Dinar, who said: Tawus used to disapprove of leasing his land for gold and silver, but saw no harm in taking a third or a quarter [of its produce]. Mujahid said to him: “Go to the son of Rafiʿ ibn Khadij and hear his hadith.” He replied: “By Allah, if I knew that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had forbidden it, I would not do it. But Ibn ʿAbbas, who knew better than him, related to me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ only said: ‘For one of you to grant his land to his brother is better than taking a specified rent for it.’” The scholars differed over the chain of this hadith from ʿAtaʾ: ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Maysarah narrated it from ʿAtaʾ, from Rafiʿ, as mentioned earlier; ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Abi Sulayman narrated it from ʿAtaʾ, from Jabir.
Translation notes
The source presents Tawus’s position, his attribution to Ibn ʿAbbas, and two differing chains for the report from ʿAtaʾ.