Arabic (مخابرة) for sharecropping whereby a plot of land is rented for part of its yield (ghallah). It is a type of contract (aqd) or agreement in which the worker (farmer) supplies seeds, in addition to his labor and expertise, and the landlord provides, through lease (ijarah), the plot of land to be ploughed in preparation for sowing seed and growing crops. Mukhabarah may also involve cultivation of a sowed land in return for a specific portion of its produce. The rent (ujrah) is paid in kind from the land’s produce.

This contract is valid and permissible but under specific conditions as defined by the majority of fuqaha (jumhur). However, Shafi’is considered it invalid due to ignorance (jahalah) surrounding the amount of rent.