Whenever one of us had no need for his land, he would lease it out for a third, a quarter, or a half of its produce, while stipulating for himself the yield of three irrigation channels, what remained on the stalks after threshing, and whatever the spring rains watered. Life was hard in those days, and a man would work the land with iron tools and whatever else Allah willed, gaining some benefit from it.Then Rafi bin Khadij came to us and said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbids you from a practice that used to benefit you, but obedience to Allah and obedience to His Messenger ﷺ is more beneficial for you. The Prophet ﷺ forbids you from sharecropping and says, 'Whoever has no need for his land, let him grant its use to his brother or leave it.' He also forbids you from muzabanah, which is when a man owns a large quantity of palm trees and another man comes to him saying, 'I will take it for such-and-such a number of wasqs of dried dates.'"
حدثنا عبد الرزاق قال أخبرنا سفيان عن منصور عن مجاهد عن أسيد بن ظهير ابن أخي رافع بن خديج
كان أحدنا إذا استغنى عن أرضه أعطاها بالثلث والربع والنصف ويشترط ثلاث جداول والقصارة وما سقى الربيع وكان العيش إذ ذاك شديدا وكان يعمل فيها بالحديد وما شاء الله ويصيب منها منفعة فأتانا رافع بن خديج فقال إن رسول الله ﷺ ينهاكم عن أمر كان لكم نافعا وطاعة الله وطاعة رسول الله ﷺ أنفع لكم إن النبي ﷺ ينهاكم عن الحقل ويقول من استغنى عن أرضه فليمنحها أخاه أو ليدع وينهاكم عن المزابنة والمزابنة أن يكون الرجل له المال العظيم من النخل فيأتيه الرجل فيقول قد أخذته بكذا وسقا من تمر
Its isnad is sahih, its narrators are leading authorities, and Usayd bin Zuhayr is a companion whose full name is Usayd bin Zuhayr bin Rafi bin Adi, Rafi bin Khadij being his paternal uncle. He was from Madinah, as stated in Isabah and Tarikh Bukhari al-Kabir 1/2/47. The hadith has already appeared under 15752.