AbuTha'labah al-Khushani

Rafi ibn Khadij, may Allah be pleased with him, was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from the Ansar of Medina, specifically from the Banu Haritha branch of the Aws tribe. He initially sought permission to participate in the Battle of Badr but was deemed too young; he fought from Uhud onward and participated in many subsequent campaigns, including sustaining a wound at the Battle of Uhud when an arrow struck him in his side. He lived until approximately 74 AH. He is best known in the hadith literature for his narrations on agricultural contracts — specifically the Prophet's prohibition of certain forms of sharecropping arrangements (muzara'ah) in which the owner and farmer divide a field by sections, with each taking the produce of his portion. This narration had a major impact on classical Islamic commercial law. He also narrated hadiths on the permissibility of eating from war booty (ghanimah) and on the ruling regarding slaughtering animals. His narrations appear in Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, and the four Sunan collections. This is a variant entry.