Sayyiduna Sa’d bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) said: In the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), we used to lease out land for a portion of the produce that grew on the edges of the water channels and that which water reached by itself, but the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from this, and he permitted us to lease out land for gold or silver (i.e., for dirhams and dinars).