Narrated: Rafi bin Khadij From Sahih Bukhari
We used to offer the Maghrib prayer with the Prophet and after finishing the prayer one of us may go away and could still see as Par as the spots where one's arrow might reach when shot by a bow.
We worked on farms more than anybody else in Medina. We used to rent the land at the yield of specific delimited portion of it to be given to the landlord. Sometimes the vegetation of that portion was affected by blights etc., while the rest remained safe and vice versa, so the Prophet (SAW) forbade this practice. At that time gold or silver were not used (for renting the land).
My uncle Zuhair said, "Allah's Apostle (SAW) forbade us to do a thing which was a source of help to us." I said, "Whatever Allah's Apostle (SAW) said was right." He said, "Allah's Apostle (SAW) sent for me and asked, 'What are you doing with your farms?' I replied, 'We give our farms on rent on the basis that we get the yield produced at the banks of the water streams (rivers) for the rent, or rent it for some Wasqs of barley and dates.' Allah's Apostle (SAW) said, 'Do not do so, but cultivate (the land) yourselves or let it be cultivated by others gratis, or keep it uncultivated.' I said, 'We hear and obey.'
We used to offer the Asr prayer with the Prophet (SAW) and slaughter a camel, the meat of which would be divided in ten parts. We would eat the cooked meat before sunset.
We used to work on the fields more than the other Ansar, and we used to rent the land (for the yield of a specific portion of it). But sometimes that portion or the rest of the land did not give any yield, so we were forbidden (by the Prophet (SAW) ) to follow such a system, but we were allowed to rent the land for money.
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