The Meaning of Muzari‘ah
Issue No.1887- Sharecropping means that the landowner agrees to hand over his land to a farmer so that he would cultivate it, in return for a specific share of the crop produced on the land. The Sharecropping contract can be concluded verbally – for example, the landowner says, “I hand over to you this land in return for one-third of its crop for a period of two years”, and the farmer says, “I accept”, and the contract is in order. It would also be in order, if the landowner [without the formula being pronounced] hands over the land to the farmer and he receives it. (Of course, the necessary talks about the duration of the contract and the landowner's proportion, etc., should have taken place earlier).
