Category:The Book of Sharecropping in Muwata Malik

List of Chapters in The Book of Sharecropping

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The Book of Sharecropping Summary

1. Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Said ibn al Musayyab that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and granthim peace said to the jews of Khaybar on the day of the conquest ofKhaybar I confirm you in it as long as Allah the Mighty theMajestic establishes you in it provided that the fruits are dividedbetween us and you
2. Malik said If the owner of the land makes a conditionthat he will cultivate the uncultivated land for himself that is notgood because the sharecropper does the watering for the owner of theland and so he increases the owner of the land in property withoutany return for himself
3. Malik spoke about a spring which was shared between two men andthen the water dried up and one of them wanted to work on the springand the other said I don t have the means to work on it
4. Malik said It is not good for a share cropper not to expendanything but his labour and to be hired for a share of the fruit whileall the expense and work is incurred by the owner of the garden because the share cropper does not know what the exact wage is goingto be for his labour whether it will be little or great
5. That is as if the owner of the gardensaid to a certain man Build me a house here or dig me a well or makea spring flow for me or do some work for me for half the fruit of thisgarden of mine before the fruit of the garden is sound and it ishalal to sell it
6. Malik said If the fruits are good and their goodcondition is clear and selling them is halal and then the owner asks aman to do one of those jobs for him specifying the job for half thefruit of his garden for example there is no harm in that
7. One of the practices of people is to give outsharecropping contracts on property with fruit trees when there isuncultivated land in it and to rent land while there are fruit treeson it just as a Qur an or sword which has some embellishment on it ofsilver is sold for silver or a necklace or ring which have stones andgold in them are sold for dinars
8. That is if the value of the blade the Qur an or the stones is two thirds or more and the value of the decorationis one third or less
9. You will not find anyone who receivesthe same share for share cropping two lands which are equal inproperty and yield when one property has a constant plentiful springand the other has a watering trough because of the lightness ofworking land with a spring and the hardship of working land with awatering trough

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