Sunan Ibn Majah 1800

Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.

Muhammad ibn Bashshar, Muhammad ibn Yahya, and Muhammad ibn Marzuq narrated to us; they said: Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn al-Muthanna narrated to us; my father narrated to me, from Thumamah, from Anas ibn Malik, that Abu Bakr al-Siddiq wrote for him: ‘In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate. This is the prescribed charity that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prescribed for the Muslims, which Allah commanded the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to establish.’

‘Regarding camel-age classes in the livestock zakah schedule: Whoever owes a jadha‘ah but does not have one, and has a hiqqah, a hiqqah is accepted from him, and he gives in its place two sheep, if readily available, or twenty dirhams. Whoever owes a hiqqah but has only a bint labun, a bint labun is accepted from him, and he gives with it two sheep or twenty dirhams.’

‘Whoever owes a bint labun but does not have one, and has a hiqqah, a hiqqah is accepted from him, and the zakah collector gives him twenty dirhams or two sheep. Whoever owes a bint labun but does not have one, and has a bint makhad, a bint makhad is accepted from him, and he gives with it twenty dirhams or two sheep.’

‘Whoever owes a bint makhad but does not have one, and has a bint labun, a bint labun is accepted from him, and the zakah collector gives him twenty dirhams or two sheep. If someone does not have a bint makhad of the required class but has a male ibn labun, it is accepted from him, and he owes nothing additional.’