Abdullah ibn Umar, the narrator of the hadith concerning the agreement with the people of Khaybar, has retracted it, saying: 'We used to engage in sharecropping (mukhabara) for forty years until Rafi' ibn Khadij told us that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade sharecropping.' This prevents the establishment of consensus and indicates the abrogation of Ibn Umar's hadith, due to his retraction from acting upon it in favor of the hadith of Rafi' [ibn Khadij]. We say: It is not permissible to interpret the hadith of Rafi' in a way that contradicts consensus, nor the hadith of Ibn Umar, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) continued to deal with the people of Khaybar until he passed away, then the Caliphs acted upon it after him, and then those who came after them. So how could it be conceived that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade something that he himself contradicted? Or how could it be practiced during the era of the Caliphs while those who heard the prohibition [from the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him)] did not inform them, even though he was present with them and aware of their actions, yet he did not inform them? If the report of Rafi' were authentic, it would be necessary to interpret it in a way that conforms to the Sunnah and consensus. Furthermore, it has been narrated in the explanation of Rafi's report, from him, what indicates the correctness of our position. Al-Bukhari recorded with his chain of narration that he said: 'We used to rent the land for a portion of it, which is assigned to the owner of the land. So sometimes it is affected and the land is safe, and sometimes the land is affected and that portion is safe, so we were forbidden from it; as for gold and silver, they did not exist at that time.' Its explanation was also narrated