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No Himā (private pasture) except according to what Allāh and His Messenger ﷺ did.(1)

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Darussalam · Volume 3

42 - THE BOOK OF WATERING

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الحديث: 2370 ¦ الجزء: 3 ¦ الصفحة: 113

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2370. Narrated As-Sa'b bin Jaththāma: Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said, "No Himā(2) except for Allāh and His Messenger ﷺ(3). We have been told that Allāh's Messenger ﷺ made a place called An-Naqī' as Hima, and 'Umar made Ash-Sharaf and Ar-Rabadha Hima (for grazing the animals of Zakāt). (1) (Ch. 11) This means that the Imām has the right to assign certain pastures for certain purposes (e.g., for grazing the animals of the Zakāt). Nobody would then have the right to use the pastures for other purposes. (Fath Al-Bārī)

Arabic text

2370 - حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ بُكَيْرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا اللَّيْثُ، عَنْ يُونُسَ، عَنِ ابْنِ شِهَابٍ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا: أَنَّ الصَّعْبَ بْنَ جَثَّامَةَ، قَالَ: إِنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ: «لاَ حِمَى إِلَّا لِلَّهِ وَلِرَسُولِهِ» وَقَالَ: بَلَغَنَا «أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَمَى النَّقِيعَ»، وَأَنَّ عُمَرَ «حَمَى السَّرَفَ وَالرَّبَذَةَ»

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  1. 2

    (2) (H. 2370) The origin of this word is that when an Arab chief came to a certain place suitable for pasturing, he would let his dog bark at a high place. The area across which the sound of the dog spread would be a private pasture for the chief's cattle, and nobody else would have the right to graze his cattle in it. So Hima means a private pasture, originally belonging to nobody, and nobody is allowed to cultivate it, but it is kept for grazing private animals. (Fath Al-Bārī)

  2. 3

    (3) (H. 2370) Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and the Muslim leaders only have the right to keep pastures of this sort; no individual has the right to keep Hima for his personal good as the Arabs used to do in the Pre-Islāmic Period of Ignorance. (Ibid.)