Information for "MuwataMalik-017-001-34997"

Yahya said that Malik said; The best of what has been heard about a sharecropper stipulating on the owner of the property the inclusion of some slave workers; is that there is no harm in that if they are workers that come with the property. They are like the property. There is no profit in them for the share-cropper except to lighten some of his burden. If they did not come with the property; his toil would be harder. It is like share-cropping land with a spring or land with a watering trough. You will not find anyone who receives the same share for share-cropping two lands which are equal in property and yield; when one property has a constant plentiful spring and the other has a watering trough; because of the lightness of working land with a spring; and the hardship of working land with a watering trough. Malik added; That is what is done in our community. Malik said; A share-cropper cannot employ workers from the property in other work; and he cannot make that a stipulation with the one who gives him the share-cropping contract. Nor is it permitted to one who share-crops to stipulate on the owner of the property inclusion of slaves for use in the garden who are not in it when he makes the share-cropping contract. Nor must the owner of the property stipulate on the one who uses his property for share-cropping that he take any of the slaves of the property and remove him from the property. The share-cropping of property is based on the state which it is currently in. If the owner of the property wants to remove one of the slaves of the property; he removes him before the share-cropping; or if he wants to put someone into the property; he does it before the share-cropping. Then he grants the share-cropping contract after that if he wishes. If any of the slaves die or go off or become ill; the owner of the property must replace them.