Is it permissible to consider vast pastures as an inviolable preserve (hima) and private property, and to sell their herbage or lease them merely because a well has been dug or a house built therein, or because they are adjacent to cultivated land, knowing that they are irrigated by rainwater? What is the ruling on artificially inseminating a ewe vaginally before mating for the purpose of twinning? What is the ruling on leasing wheat or barley when they are green fodder for sheep, and what about leaving them until harvest time, and what is the amount of zakat due on them?
Pasturelands that are not owned by anyone cannot be prohibited from grazing, based on the hadith: "Three things cannot be withheld: water, pasture, and fire." It is permissible to sell fodder to whoever acquires it. However, it is not permissible to claim ownership of such lands to prevent people, under the pretext of digging a well, building, or being adjacent to agricultural land. Nor is it permissible to seize them.
The insemination of ewes is medically permissible if it does not have harmful effects on the sheep or those who consume their meat.
Renting green wheat or barley is not permissible, because renting applies to usufructs, not to tangible goods themselves. However, it is permissible to purchase it on the condition that it is cut immediately, and both the sold item and the price must be known.
The zakat on crops sold before harvest is incumbent upon the seller.
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