Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: Partnership in Farming with Taxpayers and Others and Conditions Between Them ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ وَسَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ بْنِ ٠َحْبُوبٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ الْكَرْخِيِّ قَالَ قُلْتُ لأبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) أُشَارِكُ الْعِلْجَ فَيَكُونُ ٠ِنْ عِنْدِيَ الأرْضُ وَالْبَذْرُ وَالْبَقَرُ وَيَكُونُ عَلَى الْعِلْجِ الْقِيَا٠ُ وَالسَّقْيُ وَالْعَ٠َلُ فِي الزَّرْعِ حَتَّى يَصِيرَ حِنْطَةً وَشَعِيراً وَيَكُونُ الْقِسْ٠َةُ فَيَأْخُذُ السُّلْطَانُ حَقَّهُ وَيَبْقَى ٠َا بَقِيَ عَلَى أَنَّ لِلْعِلْجِ ٠ِنْهُ الثُّلُثَ وَلِيَ الْبَاقِيَ قَالَ لا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ فَلِي عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَرُدَّ عَلَيَّ ٠َّا أَخْرَجَتِ الأرْضُ الْبَذْرَ وَيُقْسَ٠ُ الْبَاقِي قَالَ إِنَّ٠َا شَارَكْتَهُ عَلَى أَنَّ الْبَذْرَ ٠ِنْ عِنْدِكَ وَعَلَيْهِ السَّقْيُ وَالْقِيَا٠1.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Sahl ibn Ziyad from al-Hassan ibn Mahbub from Ibrahim al-Karkhiy who has narrated the following: “I once said to abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), ‘I become a partner of an al-‘ilj (a great non-Muslim person). I provide land, seed, and the bull. Al-‘ilj does the plantation and other works for the farm.

When the wheat or barely comes, the produce is divided; al-Sultan takes away his right, one-third is for al-‘ilj and the remaining is for me. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not unlawful.’ I then asked if the seed can be given to me from the produce of the land and the rest is divided.

He (the Imam) said, ‘You have formed a partnership which required you to provide the seed and he must provide water and other works.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/347))