Jami' at-Tirmidhi — Hadith #27536

Muhammad bin Bashar told us, Abd al-Wahhab al-Thaqafi told us, Ayoub told us, on the authority of Hisham bin Urwa, on the authority of his father, on the authority of Sa`id bin Zaid, on the authority of the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, who said, “Whoever revives a dead land, it belongs to him, and no oppressive race has any right.” Abu Issa said this is a hadith. Hasan Gharib. Some of them narrated it on the authority of Hisham ibn Urwa, on the authority of his father, on the authority of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, as a mursal. And acting on this hadith. According to some people of knowledge, and this is the view of Ahmad and Ishaq, they told him to revive the dead earth without the permission of the Sultan. He said: Some of them do not have the right to revive it except with the permission of the Sultan. The first saying is more correct. He said, and in the chapter on the authority of Jabir and Amr bin Awf. Al-Muzani is very tall and dark-skinned. Abu Musa Muhammad bin Al-Muthanna told us, he said: I asked Abu Al-Walid Al-Tayalisi about his saying, “And it is not An unjust race has a right.” Then he said, “The unjust race is the usurper who takes what is not theirs.” I said, “It is the man who plants something in someone else’s land.” He said that.