Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3892
أَخْبَرَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ، - وَهُوَ ابْنُ مَيْمُونٍ - قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدٌ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، عَنْ طَارِقٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ، يَقُولُ لاَ يُصْلِحُ الزَّرْعَ غَيْرُ ثَلاَثٍ أَرْضٍ يَمْلِكُ رَقَبَتَهَا أَوْ مِنْحَةٍ أَوْ أَرْضٍ بَيْضَاءَ يَسْتَأْجِرُهَا بِذَهَبٍ أَوْ فِضَّةٍ . وَرَوَى الزُّهْرِيُّ الْكَلاَمَ الأَوَّلَ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ فَأَرْسَلَهُ.
Muhammad ibn ʿAli—meaning Ibn Maymun—reported to us: Muhammad narrated to us: Sufyan narrated to us, from Tariq, who said: I heard Saʿid ibn al-Musayyib say: ‘Cultivation is proper only in three cases: land whose title one owns, land granted to one, or open land rented for gold or silver.’ Al-Zuhri narrated the first statement from Saʿid as a mursal report.
Translation notes
The source enumerates three forms of land use and notes a mursal transmission of the first statement.