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Sahih al-Bukhari, 2330
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Narrated `Amr:

I said to Tawus, "I wish you would give up Mukhabara (Sharecropping), for the people say that the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade it." On that Tawus replied, "O `Amr! I give the land to sharecroppers and help them. No doubt; the most learned man, namely Ibn `Abbas told me that the Prophet (ﷺ) had not forbidden it but said, 'It is more beneficial for one to give his land free to one's brother than to charge him a fixed rental."

حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، قَالَ عَمْرٌو قُلْتُ لِطَاوُسٍ لَوْ تَرَكْتَ الْمُخَابَرَةَ فَإِنَّهُمْ يَزْعُمُونَ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم نَهَى عَنْهُ‏.‏ قَالَ أَىْ عَمْرُو، إِنِّي أُعْطِيهِمْ وَأُغْنِيهِمْ، وَإِنَّ أَعْلَمَهُمْ أَخْبَرَنِي ـ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم لَمْ يَنْهَ عَنْهُ، وَلَكِنْ قَالَ ‏

‏ أَنْ يَمْنَحَ أَحَدُكُمْ أَخَاهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ عَلَيْهِ خَرْجًا مَعْلُومًا ‏

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In-Book Reference
Book 41, Hadith 11
USC-MSA web (English) reference
Vol. 3, Book 39, Hadith 523 (deprecated numbering scheme)
Sharh · explanationclick to expand
Islam regulates the interactions and transactions between people, and ensures that they are based on the principles of cooperation, (fostering) rapport, affection, love, and avoiding conflict, discord, and deceit. In this narration, a dialogue took place between ‘Amr ibn Dinaar and Taawoos ibn Kaysaan, who used to engage in Mukhaabarah, which is a sharecropping transaction which involved cultivating a land in return for a fixed share of the yield, and which is similar to the Muzaara‘ah transaction (i.e., a contract in which one of the parties gives a plot of land for a fixed period to the other party to cultivate and divide up the yield), but the difference between them is that the farmer supplies the seeds,in addition to his labor and expertise (and the landlord provides, through lease, the plot of land to be ploughed in preparation for sowing seed and growing crops) in the Mukhaabarahtransaction, whereas a landowner provides both in the Muzaara‘ah transaction. ‘Amr said to him: "I wish you would give up Mukhaabarah, for people say that the Prophet ﷺ forbade it." On that, Taawoos replied, "O ‘Amr! I give the land to sharecroppers and help them,” meaning pay the farmers what sufficed them. He added: “No doubt; the most learned man, namely Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allah be pleased with them), who claimed that the Prophet ﷺ had forbidden it, told me that the Prophet ﷺhad not forbidden it but rather said, 'It is more beneficial to give one’s land free to his fellow Muslim brother than to charge him a fixed rent.’ This means that it is better for a Muslim landowner to lend his fellow Muslim farmer his land gratis and as a loan than to rent it out for a fixed rent, lest it would incur discord, dissention, and infringement of rights. The Prophet ﷺ disliked that practice for them lest it would undermine their rapport and causedissension among Muslims. .
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