Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3931
أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الْحَكَمِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعَيْبُ بْنُ اللَّيْثِ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ، كَانَ يَقُولُ كَانَتِ الْمَزَارِعُ تُكْرَى عَلَى عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَلَى أَنَّ لِرَبِّ الأَرْضِ مَا عَلَى رَبِيعِ السَّاقِي مِنَ الزَّرْعِ وَطَائِفَةً مِنَ التِّبْنِ لاَ أَدْرِي كَمْ هُوَ.
ʿAbd al-Rahman ibn ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAbd al-Hakam reported to us: Shuʿayb ibn al-Layth narrated to us, from his father, from Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Rahman, from Nafiʿ, that ʿAbdullah ibn ʿUmar used to say: ‘In the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, farms were leased on the condition that the landowner would receive what grew along the irrigating watercourse and a portion of the straw—I do not know how much.’
Translation notes
The narrator explicitly says he does not know the quantity of straw.