25 - Chapter: What Requires the Tithe (ʿUshr) and What Requires Half the Tithe

2488 - Hārūn ibn Saʿīd ibn al-Haytham Abū Jaʿfar al-Aylī informed us, saying: Ibn Wahb narrated to us, saying: Yūnus informed me, from Ibn Shihāb, from Sālim, from his father, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "For what is watered by the sky, rivers, and springs, or is rain-fed (baʿl), the tithe is due; and for what is watered by camels used for drawing water (sawānī) and by irrigation with buckets (naḍḥ), half the tithe is due."

============================================

There is no Ayyūb in it, as in ʿIlal of Ibn Abī Ḥātim (624).

It is a repetition of hadith (2473), except for the shaykh of the compiler, for there it is Yaḥyā ibn Ḥabīb ibn ʿArabī, and without mentioning ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUmar in its chain.

It has already been transmitted via the route of al-Layth ibn Saʿd, from Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī alone, from ʿAmr ibn Yaḥyā, with it, under number (2446).

(1) In (M) and the margin of (K): "or the naḍḥ," and in the margin of (H): "or the nawāḍiḥ," and in the margin of (K): "and the nawāḍiḥ."

(2) Its chain is sound. Ibn Wahb: he is ʿAbd Allāh Abū Muḥammad al-Miṣrī, and Yūnus: he is Ibn Yazīd al-Aylī, and Ibn Shihāb: he is Muḥammad ibn Muslim al-Zuhrī, and Sālim: he is Ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with him. It is in al-Sunan al-Kubrā under number (2279).

It was also transmitted by Abū Dāwūd (1596) and Ibn Mājah (1817) from Hārūn ibn Saʿīd, with this chain, and in Ibn Mājah's narration there is no mention of naḍḥ.

It was also transmitted by al-Bukhārī (1483), al-Tirmidhī (640), and Ibn Ḥibbān (3285) and (3287) via two routes from Ibn Wahb with it. The mention of sawānī does not appear in their versions, and the mention of rivers does not appear in al-Bukhārī and al-Tirmidhī, and in their versions: "or was ʿatharī" instead of "or was baʿl," and the meaning is close (and it will come later), and this wording does not appear in Ibn Ḥibbān (3287).

His saying: "what is watered by the sky" means: rain, by way of mentioning the place while intending the condition, and the intended meaning is: what does not require expense for its watering.

Al-Baʿl: what drinks from palm trees through their roots from the earth, without watering by the sky or anything else.

"Al-Sawānī" is the plural of sāniyah; it is a camel upon which water is drawn.

"Al-Naḍḥ": it is watering with a rope, and the intended meaning is what requires the expense of equipment. Al-Sindī said this.