Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 2488
أَخْبَرَنَا هَارُونُ بْنُ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْهَيْثَمِ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ الأَيْلِيُّ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ وَهْبٍ، قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي يُونُسُ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ سَالِمٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " فِيمَا سَقَتِ السَّمَاءُ وَالأَنْهَارُ وَالْعُيُونُ أَوْ كَانَ بَعْلاً الْعُشْرُ وَمَا سُقِيَ بِالسَّوَانِي وَالنَّضْحِ نِصْفُ الْعُشْرِ " .
Harun ibn Saeed ibn al-Haytham Abu Jafar al-Ayli reported: Ibn Wahb narrated to us: Yunus informed me, from Ibn Shihab, from Salim, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: For land watered by rain, rivers, or springs, or that is naturally watered, the due is one tenth. For land watered by water-lifting devices and irrigation, the due is half of one tenth.
Translation notes
The report contrasts naturally watered land with land requiring irrigation. The technical Arabic terms for the latter methods are flagged for lexical review.
أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " فِيمَا سَقَتِ السَّمَاءُ وَالأَنْهَارُ وَالْعُيُونُ أَوْ كَانَ بَعْلاً الْعُشْرُ وَمَا سُقِيَ بِالسَّوَانِي وَالنَّضْحِ نِصْفُ الْعُشْرِ " .
The technical irrigation terms السواني and النضح have more than one established English rendering.
Should these be rendered as water-lifting devices and manual irrigation, or retained more literally?