قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُد قَرَأْتُ عَلَى سَعِيدِ بْنِ يَعْقُوبَ الطَّالْقَانِيِّ قُلْتُ لَهُ حَدَّثَكُمْ ابْنُ الْمُبَارَكِ عَنْ سَعِيدٍ أَبِي شُجَاعٍ حَدَّثَنِي عُثْمَانُ بْنُ سَهْلِ بْنِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ قَالَ إِنِّي لَيَتِيمٌ فِي حِجْرِ رَافِعِ بْنِ خَدِيجٍ وَحَجَجْتُ مَعَهُ فَجَاءَهُ أَخِي عِمْرَانُ بْنُ سَهْلٍ فَقَالَ أَكْرَيْنَا أَرْضَنَا فُلَانَةَ بِمِائَتَيْ دِرْهَمٍ فَقَالَ دَعْهُ فَإِنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نَهَى عَنْ كِرَاءِ الْأَرْضِ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 3401
Abu Dawud said: I read out (this tradition) to Saeed bin Ya'qub al-Taliqini, and I said to him: Ibn al-Mubarak transmitted (this tradition) to you from Saeed Abi Shuja' who said: Uthman bin Sahl bin Rafi bin Khadij narrated it to me saying: I was an orphan being nourished under the guardianship of Rafi bin Khadij and I performed Hajj with him. My brother Imran bin 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.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020