3398 - Muhammad ibn Kathir narrated to us, Sufyan informed us, from Mansur, from Mujahid, that Usayd ibn Zuhayr said:

Rafi' ibn Khadij came to us and said: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbids you from something that was beneficial to you, but obedience to Allah and obedience to His Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him, is more beneficial to you. The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbids you from al-haql (sharecropping), and he said: "Whoever has no need of his land, let him give it to his brother [to cultivate] or let him leave it."(1)

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= Mujahid: he is Ibn Jabr al-Makki. What is meant by Abu Rafi' here is the paternal uncle of Rafi', as we clarified in our commentary on "al-Musnad" (15822).

It was also recorded by Ibn Abi Shaybah 6/347, and Ahmad (15822) from Waki' ibn al-Jarrah, with this chain of transmission. However, in "Musnad Ahmad" it comes as: from Ibn Rafi' ibn Khadij, from his father, who said: A messenger came to us from the Messenger of Allah... and he did not mention Abu Rafi' in its chain.

It was also recorded by al-Nasa'i (3867), al-Tahawi in "Sharh Ma'ani al-Athar" 4/106, and al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" (4358) via the route of Abd al-Karim al-Jazari, and al-Tabarani (4357) via the route of Khusayf, both from Mujahid who said: I took Tawus by the hand until I brought him to Ibn Rafi' ibn Khadij, and he told him from his father, from the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, that he forbade leasing land, but Tawus refused [to accept that], saying: I heard Ibn Abbas see no harm in that.

It was also recorded by Muslim (1550) and al-Nasa'i (3873) via the route of Amr ibn Dinar, that Mujahid said to Tawus: Come with us to Ibn Rafi' ibn Khadij... its mention has preceded shortly.

It was also recorded with its meaning by al-Tirmidhi (1440), al-Nasa'i (3868) via the route of Abu Husayn, al-Nasa'i (3869) via the route of Ibrahim ibn Muhajir, and (3870) via the route of al-Hakam, and (3871) and (3872) via the route of Abd al-Malik ibn Maysara al-Zarrad, all four of them from Mujahid — and Abd al-Malik associated with him in the second place Ata' and Tawus — from Rafi' ibn Khadij. And this is disconnected (munqati') as al-Nasa'i said following (3867), because Mujahid did not hear from Rafi'.

And see what follows it, and what has preceded under numbers (3389) and (3392).

(1) Its chain of transmission is authentic (sahih). Mujahid: he is Ibn Jabr al-Makki, and Mansur: he is Ibn al-Mu'tamir, and Sufyan: he is al-Thawri.