English translation
2254, 2255. Narrated Muḥammad bin Abī Al-Mujālid: Abū Burda and 'Abdullāh bin Shaddād sent me to 'Abdur Raḥmān bin Abzā and 'Abdullāh bin Abī Aūfā to ask them about the As-Salaf (As-Salam). They said, "We used to get war booty while we were with Allāh's Messenger ﷺ, and when the peasants of Shām came to us we used to pay them in advance for wheat, barley, and oil to be delivered within a known fixed time-period." I asked them, "Did the peasants own standing crops or not?" They replied, "We never asked them about it."
