Musnad Ahmad 15803

Translation

✧ We used to engage in mukhabarah and saw nothing wrong with it until Rafi' b. Khadij claimed that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade it, so we abandoned it.

Grades by grader

What scholars said about it

In their own words, as Hadith Unlocked records them. They are shown, not summarised into a grade.

• Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

  حديث رافع بن خديج في النهي عن كراء المزارع مضطرب الألفاظ ولا يصح

  machine translationThe hadith of Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj on the prohibition of renting out farmland is inconsistent in its wording (muḍṭarib) and is not sound (ṣaḥīḥ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15974
• Qurṭubī

  حديث رافع بن خديج مضطرب غاية الاضطراب

  machine translationThe ḥadīth of Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj is extremely inconsistent (muḍṭarib). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 15974

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 1536jSunan an-Nasa'i 3907Sunan an-Nasa'i 3909Sunan an-Nasa'i 3913

Narrators

1. 1
   Rāfiʿ b. Khadīj al-Anṣārī

   Eminent Companion (ṣaḥābī jalīl)d. 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 59 AH, also said: after 50 AH to 60 AH
   رَافِع بْن خَدِيج الأَنْصَارِيّصحابي جليل
   صريح في السماع
2. 2
   ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb

   One of the Companions who narrated most often, and one of the ʿAbādilah; he was among the people most strict in following the narrations (athar).d. 72 AH, or 73 AH, or 74 AH, also said: 75 AH
   ابْنَ عُمَرَأحد المكثرين من الصحابة والعبادلة ، وكان من أشد الناس اتباعا للأثر
   سمع
3. 3
   ʿAmr b. Dīnār al-Athram

   trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 125 AH, or 126 AH, or 129 AH, also said: 116 AH
   عَمْرًاثقة ثبت
   سمعت
4. 4
   Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an imam and a proof (ḥujjah), except that his memory changed towards the end of his life; he sometimes practiced concealment (tadlīs), but only from trustworthy narrators.d. 197 AH or 198 AH
   سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ فقيه , إمام حجة إلا أنه تغير حفظه بأخرة , وكان ربما دلس لكن عن الثقات
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

Latin names and English verdicts with a dotted underline are machine translations, not reviewed.