What is the ruling on an arrangement where one person provides the seeds and another provides the land, for the resulting crop to be shared between them?

Chapter on Sharecropping (Muzara'ah)

Al-Mughni

Book of Sharecropping (Musāqāh)

Book 24 · Issue 1 · Bab 2

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This arrangement, known as a partnership where one provides seeds and the other land for sharing the yield, is invalid (*fasid*). The resulting crop belongs entirely to the owner of the seeds, and the land owner is due the rent for the land and the wages for the labor.