Harvest (hisad)

الحصاد

Harvest (hisad) is the cutting of the crop, and the jurists also use it for what remains in the field after reaping. ¹ Threshing, date-picking and shearing are related seasons: the date harvest is for palms, the grain harvest for crops, and shearing for palms, crops, wool and hair. ^{1 2} The harvest is an unknown term of close uncertainty; the Hanafis, Shafi'is, Hanbalis and Ibn al-Mundhir hold that a sale or a salam contract may not be deferred to it, citing the rule of a known term, and they differ on the effect of such a condition. ² Its detailed rules belong to the stipulated option, salam, hire, sharecropping, irrigation partnership, and zakat. ^{2 3}