Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3896
أَخْبَرَنِي زَكَرِيَّا بْنُ يَحْيَى، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَمَّادٌ، عَنْ أَيُّوبَ، قَالَ كَتَبَ إِلَىَّ يَعْلَى بْنُ حَكِيمٍ أَنِّي سَمِعْتُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنَ يَسَارٍ، يُحَدِّثُ عَنْ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ، قَالَ كُنَّا نُحَاقِلُ الأَرْضَ نُكْرِيهَا بِالثُّلُثِ وَالرُّبُعِ وَالطَّعَامِ الْمُسَمَّى. رَوَاهُ سَعِيدٌ عَنْ يَعْلَى بْنِ حَكِيمٍ.
Zakariyya ibn Yahya informed me: Muhammad ibn ʿUbayd narrated to us: Hammad narrated to us, from Ayyub, who said: Yaʿla ibn Hakim wrote to me: I heard Sulayman ibn Yasar narrating from Rafiʿ ibn Khadij, who said: ‘We practiced sharecropping, leasing land for a third, a quarter, or a specified quantity of food.’ Saʿid also narrated it from Yaʿla ibn Hakim.
Translation notes
The report preserves the three types of crop-based rent as stated.