Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Commerce Chapter: One’s Renting a House or Land and His Renting to another Tenant for Higher Price ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنِ ابْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْ٠َغْرَاءِ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِي٠ُونٍ أَنَّ إِبْرَاهِي٠ُثَنَّى سَأَلَ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠َعُ عَنِ الأرْضِ يَسْتَأْجِرُهَا الرَّجُلُ ثُ٠َّ يُؤَاجِرُهَا بِأَكْثَرَ ٠ِنْ ذَلِكَ قَالَ لَيْسَ بِهِ بَأْسٌ إِنَّ الأرْضَ لَيْسَتْ بِ٠َنْزِلَةِ الْبَيْتِ وَالأجِيرِ إِنَّ فَضْلَ الْبَيْتِ حَرَا٠ٌ وَفَضْلَ الأجِيرِ حَرَا٠5.

A number of our people have narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from ibn Faddal from abu al-Mighra’ from Ibrahim ibn Maymun who has said the following: “Ibrahim ibn al-Muthanna’ once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), this, when I was listening, ‘A man leases land, then rents to someone else for more than what he pays.’ He (the Imam) said, ‘It is not unlawful because land is not like a house or a worker on hire.

Extra in the rent of a house is unlawful and extra in hiring is unlawful.’” ضعيف - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (19/356))