I asked Rafi bin Khadij, and he said, "We used to lease land on the basis that whatever this portion produced was for you and whatever that portion produced was for me. So we were forbidden from leasing it in exchange for what it produced, but we were not forbidden from leasing land for silver."
حدثنا محمد بن الصباح حدثنا سفيان بن عيينة عن يحيى بن سعيد
سألت رافع بن خديج قال كنا نكري الأرض على أن لك ما أخرجت هذه ولي ما أخرجت هذه فنهينا أن نكريها بما أخرجت ولم ننه أن نكري الأرض بالورق
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Bukhari narrated it in the Book of Cultivation and Sharecropping, chapter on what is disliked among conditions in sharecropping, no. 2332, and Muslim in the Book of Sales, chapter on renting land for gold and silver, no. 1547, from the hadith of Sufyan bin Uyayna, with the same wording.