We used to engage in muhaqalah with land during the time of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, renting it out for a third or a quarter of the produce, or for a specified amount of food. One day, a man from among my paternal uncles came to us and said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has forbidden us from something that was beneficial to us, but obedience to Allah and His Messenger is more beneficial for us. He forbade us from practicing muhaqalah on land by renting it out for a third or a quarter of the produce, or for a specified amount of food. He ordered the owner of the land to either cultivate it himself or have it cultivated by another, and he disapproved of renting it out or anything else of that nature."
حدثنا إسماعيل حدثنا أيوب عن يعلى بن حكيم عن سليمان بن يسار
كنا نحاقل بالأرض على عهد رسول الله ﷺ فنكريها بالثلث والربع والطعام المسمى فجاءنا ذات يوم رجل من عمومتي فقال نهانا رسول الله ﷺ عن أمر كان لنا نافعا وطاعة الله ورسوله أنفع لنا نهانا أن نحاقل بالأرض فنكريها على الثلث والربع والطعام المسمى وأمر رب الأرض أن يزرعها أو يزرعها وكره كراءها وما سوى ذلك
Its isnad is sahih. Its narrators are leading authorities. Ismail is Ibn Ulaya, Ayub is Sakhtiyani, and Yaala bin Hakeem is Thaqafi, their client, a well-known trustworthy narrator whose hadith appears in the Sahihayn. Likewise Sulayman bin Yasar Hilali, the famous jurist, was one of the seven jurists. The hadith was mentioned earlier at 15759...