The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade to eat (the meat of animals) slaughtered by the bedouins for vainglory and pride. Abu Dawud said: The narrator Ghundar narrated this tradition as a saying of Ibn ‘Abbas (and not of the Prophet).
The Prophet (ﷺ) has a secretary named Sijill.
I Ammar, and Sa’d became partners in what we would receive on the day of Badr. Sa’d then brought two prisoners, but I and Ammar did not bring anything.
We used to lease land for what grew by the streamlets and for what was watered from them. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade us to do that, and commanded us to lease if for gold or silver.
I asked Rafi’ b. Khadij about the lease of land for gold and silver (i.e. for dinars and dirhams). There is no harm in it, for the people used to let out land in the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) for what grew by the current of water and at the banks of streamlets and at the places of cultivation. So sometimes this (portion) perished and that (portion) was saved, and sometimes this remained intact and that perished. There was no (form of) lease among the people except this. Therefore, he forbade it. But if there is something which is secure and known, then there is no harm in it. The tradition of Ibrahim is more perfect. Qutaibah said: “from Hanzalah on the authority of Rafi’ “. Abu Dawud said: A similar tradition has been transmitted by Yahya b. Sa’id from Hanzalah.
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade the leasing of land. I asked: (Did he forbid) for gold and silver (i.e. dinars and dirhams)? He replied: If it is against gold and silver, then there is no harm in it.
Ibn ‘Umar used to let out his land till it reached him that Rafi’ b. Khadij al-Ansari narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade let out land. So ‘Abd Allah (b. ‘Umar) said: Ibn Khadij, what do you narrate from the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about leasing the land? Rafi’ replied to ‘Abd Allah b. ‘Umar: I heard both of my uncles were present in the battle of Badr say, and they narrated it to the members of the family, that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbade leasing land. ‘Abd Allah said: I swear by Allah, I knew that land was leased in the time of the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ). ‘Abd Allah then feared that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) might have created something new in that matter, so he gave up leasing land. Abu Dawud said: This tradition has also been transmitted by Ayyub, ‘Ubaid Allah, Kathir b. Farqad, Malik from Nafi’ on the authority of Rafi’ from the Prophet (ﷺ). It has also been transmitted by al-Auzai’ from Hafs b. ‘Inan al-Hanafi from Nafi’ from Rafi’ who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: Similarly, it has been transmitted by Zaid b. Abi Unaisah from al-Hakkam from Nafi’ from Ibn ‘Umar that he went to Rafi’ and asked: Have you heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say? He replied: Yes. Similarly, it has also been transmitted by ‘Ikrimah b. ‘Ammar from Abu al-Najashi, from Rafi’ b. Khadij who said: I heard the Prophet (ﷺ) say. It has also been transmitted by al-Auza’i from Abu al-Najashi from Rafi’ b. Khadij from his uncle Zuhair b. Rafi’ from the Prophet (ﷺ). Abu Dawud said: The name of Abu al-Najashi is ‘Ata b. Suhaib.
Rafi’ b. Khadij came to us and said: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbids you from a work which is beneficial to you ; and obedience to Allah and His Prophet (ﷺ) is more beneficial to you. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) forbids you from renting land for share of its produce and he said: If anyone if not in need of his land he should lend it to his brother or leave it. Abu Dawud said: Shu’bah and Mufaddal b. Muhalhal have narrated it from Mansur in similar way. Shu’bah said (in his version): Usaid, nephew of Rafi’ b, Khadij.
My uncle sent me and his slave to Sa’id ibn al-Musayyab. We said to him, there is something which has reached us about sharecropping. He replied: Ibn Umar did not see any harm in it until a tradition reached him from Rafi’ ibn Khadij. He then came to him and Rafi’ told him that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) came to Banu Harithah and saw crop in the land of Zuhayr. He said: What an excellent crop of Zuhayr is! They said: It does not belong to Zuhayr. He asked: Is this not the land of Zuhayr? They said: Yes, but the crop belongs to so-and-so. He said: Take your crop and give him the wages. Rafi’ said: We took our crop and gave him the wages. Sa’id (ibn al-Musayyab) said: Lend your brother or employ him for dirhams.
I read out (this tradition) to Sa’id b. Ya’qub al-Taliqini, and I said to him: Ibn al-Mubarak transmitted (this tradition) to you from Sa’id Abi Shuja’ who said: ‘Uthman b. Sahl b. Rafi’ b. Khadij narrated it to me saying: I was an orphan being nourished under the guardianship of Rafi’ b. Khadij and I performed Hajj with him. My brother ‘Imran b. Sahl then came to me and said: We rented out land to so-and-so for two hundred dirhams. He said: Leave it, for the Prophet (ﷺ) forbade renting land.
Rafi’ had cultivated a land. The Prophet (ﷺ) passed him when he was watering it. So he asked him: To whom does the crop belong, and to whom does the land belong? He replied: The crop is mine for my seed and labour. The half (of the crop) is mine and the half for so-and-so. He said: You conducted usurious transaction. Return the land to its owner and take your wages and cost.
You have brought what is good from this man. Then they brought a lunatic in chains. He recited Surat al-Fatihah over him three days, morning and evening. When he finished, he collected his saliva and then spat it out, (he felt relief) as if he were set free from a bond. They gave him something (as wages). He then came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and mentioned it to him. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: Accept it, for by my life, some accept it for a worthless charm, but you have done so far a genuine one.
Rafi’ ibn Rifa’ah came to a meeting of the Ansar and said: The Prophet of Allah (ﷺ) forbade us (from some things) today, and he mentioned some things. He forbade the earning of a slave-girl except what she earned with her hand. He indicated (some things) with his fingers such as baking, spinning, and ginning.
A man wearing two red garments passed the Prophet (ﷺ) and gave him a greeting, but he did not respond to his greeting.
“A free man should not be subjected to retaliation in return for a slave.”
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) killed a man of Banu Nadr ibn Malik at Harrah ar-Righa’ at the bank of Layyat al-Bahrah. The transmitter Mahmud (ibn Khalid) also mentioned the words along with the words “at Bahrah” “the slayer and the slain were from among them”. Mahmud alone transmitted in this tradition the words “at the bank of Layyah”.