If, however, the seed lawfully belongs to a third party, it remains his, and the rightful owner recovers his land. He is also entitled to rent from the cultivator if the cultivator rented it directly from him. If it was the usurper who leased it to the cultivator, the rightful owner is likewise entitled to rent if the planting season has not yet passed. If the season has passed, the matter falls under the disagreement concerning the yield of usurped land, which has already been discussed.
If, however, the seller sowed the crop and then sold the sown land to the person from whom it is now recovered, the rightful owner recovers his land, the sale is rescinded with respect to the crop, and the purchaser recovers the entire price from the seller. Ibn al-Mawwāz’s book states that the crop remains the purchaser’s, but this is an implausible view. This explains the ruling when either the pre-emptor or the rightful owner comes forward separately, and obviates the need to discuss their coming forward together. Allah grants success.
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As for a lease, the disagreement over whether pre-emption applies concerns only a lease made separately from the sale of the underlying property. No other case is conceivable here. Allah grants success.
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As for an orchard’s slaves and a mill, the disagreement over whether pre-emption applies concerns only their sale together with the underlying property. If they are sold separately from the underlying property, there is agreement that no right of pre-emption applies to them.
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As for water, there is no disagreement that pre-emption applies when a share of it is sold, whether together with the underlying land or separately, provided that the land has not been divided. There is disagreement, however, over whether pre-emption applies once the land has been divided. Al-Mudawwana states that it does not, whereas Yahyā narrates from Ibn al-Qāsim in al-ʿUtbiyya that it does. Sahnūn and Ibn Lubāba held that these were not conflicting positions, although they differed in how they reconciled them. Sahnūn explained that the case in al-Mudawwana concerns a single well, to which pre-emption does not apply because it cannot be divided.