What they said on the fifth and the kharaj: how are they allocated?

Amr bin Maymun (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed on the people of Sawad, on every jarib, one qafiz and one dirham.

Abu Awn Muhammad bin Ubaydullah al-Thaqafi (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed on the people of Sawad, on every jarib, cultivated or uncultivated, one qafiz and one dirham. On a jarib of green crops he imposed five dirhams and five qafiz, on a jarib of trees he imposed ten dirhams and ten qafiz, and on a jarib of grapevines he likewise imposed ten dirhams and ten qafiz. He made no mention of date palms.

Abu Awn Muhammad bin Ubaydullah al-Thaqafi (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed on the people of Sawad, on every jarib of land that water reaches, whether cultivated or uncultivated, one dirham and one qafiz of food. On orchards, on every jarib, he imposed ten dirhams and ten qafiz of food. On green crops, on every jarib, he imposed five dirhams and five qafiz of food. On vineyards, on every jarib, he imposed ten dirhams and ten qafiz. On date palms he imposed nothing, and he treated them as subordinate to the land.

Abu Mijlaz (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) sent Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) to survey the land. Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed ten dirhams on a jarib of grapevines, eight dirhams on a jarib of date palms, six dirhams on a jarib of green crops, four dirhams on a jarib of wheat, and two dirhams on a jarib of barley.

Abu Mijlaz (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed eight dirhams on a jarib of date palms.

Al-Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) said that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) sent Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) to Sawad. On every jarib of land, cultivated or uncultivated, that water reaches, he imposed one dirham and one qafiz of wheat or barley. On every jarib of grapevines he imposed ten, and on a jarib of green crops he imposed five.

Aban bin Taghlib (may Allah have mercy on him) narrates from a man that Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed one dirham on every two tall date palms, and likewise one dirham on every Persian one.

Amr bin Maymun said: I came, and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was standing beside Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) was saying: "Do you two fear that you have burdened the land with what it cannot bear?" Sayyiduna Hudhayfah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "If I wished, I could double it on my land." Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "I have burdened my land with what it is able to bear, and there is not much surplus in it." Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Consider carefully, lest you burden the land with what it cannot bear."

Amr bin Maymun said that Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) came in to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him). Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "If you were to add two dirhams on each person, and one dirham and one qafiz of grain on each jarib of land, that would not harm them, nor overburden them," or a word like it. Sayyiduna Uthman bin Hunayf (may Allah be pleased with him) agreed with this. Each person had previously owed forty-eight, and it was now made fifty.

Dawud bin Sulayman said that Umar bin Abdul Aziz wrote to Abdul Hamid bin Abdur Rahman: "I order you to examine the land of the people of Kufah. Do not apply the ruling of cultivated land to ruined land, nor the ruling of ruined land to cultivated land. Look at the ruined land, take from it what it can bear, and restore it until it is cultivated. From the cultivated land take only the fixed kharaj, so that there is gentleness towards the people of the land and ease for them. I order you to take in the kharaj only the weight of seven, with no alloy in it. Do not take the wages of the minters. Do not take melted silver. Do not take the gift of Nowruz and Mihrajan. Do not take the price of the Mushaf. Do not take the fees for conquests. Do not take the rent of rooms. Do not take the marriage dirham. And do not take kharaj from whoever becomes Muslim."