It was narrated that 'Amr bin Dinar said: I said to Tawus: "0 Abu' Abdur-Rahman, why do you not give up this Mukhabarah because they claim that the Messenger of Allah forbade it." He said: "0 'Amr, I help them by taking their land and cultivating it, and giving them something in return, and Muadh bin Jabal allowed people here to do that. The most knowledgeable of them - meaning Ibn' Abbas - told me that the Messenger of Allah did not forbid it, rather he said: 'For One of you to give (land) to his brother is better for him than if he were to take a set amount in rent for it.”