Sunan Ibn Majah 2460

Translation

“If one of us did not need his land, he would give it (to someone else to cultivate) in return for one third, or one half of the yield, and he would stipulate (that the should receive) the produce grows on the banks of three streams, and the grains that remain in the ear after threshing, and the produce irrigated by a stream. Life at that time was hard, and he would work (the land) with iron and whatever Allah (SWT) willed, and he would benefit from it. Then Rafi bin Khadij came to us and said: ‘The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade you to do something that may seem beneficial to you, but obedience to Allah and obedience to His Messenger are more beneficial for you. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ forbade Haq for you, and he said: “Whoever has no need of his land, let him give it to his brother (to cultivate) or let him leave it (uncultivated).”

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What scholars said about it

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• Qurṭubī

  حديث رافع بن خديج مضطرب غاية الاضطراب

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

  in سنن ابن ماجه, p. 2547

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 2464al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10909al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10910al-Mu'jam al-Kabir (al-Tabarani) 10911Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 14536Musnad al-Bazzar 4712

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
   عن
2. 2
   Usayd b. Ẓuhayr al-Ḥārithī

   He and his father were Companions (ṣuḥbah).d. during the caliphate of Marwān b. al-Ḥakam, Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr said: he died during the caliphate of ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān, al-Dhahabī said: 65 AH
   أُسَيْدِ بْنِ ظُهَيْرٍ ابْنِ أَخِي رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍله ولأبيه صحبة
   عن
3. 3
   Mujāhid b. Jabr al-Makhzūmī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), an imam in Quranic exegesis and in knowledge.d. 100 AH, or 101 AH, or 102 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH, or 107 AH
   مُجَاهِدٍثقة ، إمام في التفسير وفي العلم
   عن
4. 4
   Manṣūr b. al-Muʿtamir

   Trustworthy (thiqah), reliable (thabt), and he did not commit tadlīs (lā yudallis)d. 132 AH, or 133 AH
   مَنْصُورٍثقة ثبت ، وكان لا يدلس
   عن
5. 5
   Sufyān al-Thawrī

   trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
   الثَّوْرِيُّثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
   أخبرنا
6. 6
   ʿAbd al-Razzāq

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a renowned author (muṣannif); he went blind at the end of his life and his memory changed (taghayyara), and he had Shiite leanings (kāna yatashayyaʿ)d. 211 AH
   عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِثقة حافظ مصنف شهير ، عمي في آخر عمره فتغير ، وكان يتشيع
   أخبرنا
7. 7
   Muḥammad b. Yaḥyá al-Dhuhlī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), eminentd. Ibn Qāniʿ said: 252 AH, also said: 256 AH, ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. Ziyād al-Naysābūrī said: 257 AH, al-Khaṭīb said: all these views are mistaken, Abū Ḥāmid b. al-Sharqī and others said: 258 AH, and this is correct
   مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَىثقة حافظ جليل
   حدثنا
8. 8
   Ibn Mājah

   one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
   ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

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