قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) أُشَارِكُ الْعِلْجَ فَيَكُونُ مِنْ عِنْدِيَ الْأَرْضُ وَ الْبَذْرُ وَ الْبَقَرُ وَ يَكُونُ عَلَى الْعِلْجِ الْقِيَامُ وَ السَّقْيُ وَ الْعَمَلُ فِي الزَّرْعِ حَتَّى يَصِيرَ حِنْطَةً وَ شَعِيراً وَ يَكُونُ الْقِسْمَةُ فَيَأْخُذُ السُّلْطَانُ حَقَّهُ وَ يَبْقَى مَا بَقِيَ عَلَى أَنَّ لِلْعِلْجِ مِنْهُ الثُّلُثَ وَ لِيَ الْبَاقِيَ قَالَ لَا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ فَلِي عَلَيْهِ أَنْ يَرُدَّ عَلَيَّ مِمَّا أَخْرَجَتِ الْأَرْضُ الْبَذْرَ وَ يُقْسَمُ الْبَاقِي قَالَ إِنَّمَا شَارَكْتَهُ عَلَى أَنَّ الْبَذْرَ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ وَ عَلَيْهِ السَّقْيُ وَ الْقِيَامُ
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, and Sahl Bin Ziyad, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Ibrahim Al Karkhy who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘I associated with <span class="iTxt">Al Ilj</span> (the non-Muslim) so there happened to be from me, the land, and the sowing, and the oxen, and there happened to be upon <span class="iTxt">Al Ilj</span> (non-Muslim) the overseeing, and the irrigation, and the workers in the farming until there came to be wheat and barley, and there happened to be the distribution, so the Sultan (ruling authority) took his right (taxation), and there remained what remained upon a stipulation that for <span class="iTxt">Al Ilj</span> (the non-Muslim) from it would be the third, and for me would be the remainder’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no problem with that’. I said, ‘So would it be for me if he was to return to me from what I had brought out of the seeds, and the remainder to be divided?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘But rather, you participated with him upon a stipulation that the sowing would be from you, and upon him would be the irrigation and the overseeing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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