[1] The origin of this word is that when an Arab chief came to a certain place suitable for pasturing, he would let his dog bark at a high place. The area across which the sound of the dog spread would be a private pasture for the chief's cattle and nobody else would have the right to graze his cattle in it. So Hima means a private pasture, originally belonging to nobody, and nobody is allowed to cultivate it, but it is kept for grazing private animals. (Fath Al-Bari, Vol. 5, Page 772).

[3] Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) and the Muslim leaders only have the right to keep pastures of this sort; no individual has the right to keep IIima for his personal good as the Arabs used to do in the Pre-Islâmic Period of Ignorance. (Ibid).