Forms of sharecropping: hiring a labourer against a loan and partnership in the produce

Question

Question: What do the scholars of the religion and the muftis of the firm Sharia say regarding the following matter? A man is engaged in farming and, for his own interests — especially because he simply cannot carry on the farming by himself — he looks for some helper and companion and wants to engage him for twelve months, so that there is no disarray in the work and no difficulty when the time comes. Several forms of this are customary.

Answer

Since the first two forms are carried out under the pressure of the loan, and the debtor (?) derives benefit from his loan — in that he obtains a labourer at a lower wage and bound by an obligation — whether the labourer agrees of his own accord or the debtor (?)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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