The Chapters Regarding Zakat

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah and Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; they said: Waki‘ narrated to us, from Sa‘id ibn Abd al-Aziz, from Sulayman ibn Musa, from Abu Sayyarah al-Muta‘i, who said: I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, I have bees.’ He said, ‘Pay one-tenth.’ I said, ‘Messenger of Allah, protect them for me.’ So he protected them for me.

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Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Nu‘aym ibn Hammad narrated to us; Ibn al-Mubarak narrated to us; Usamah ibn Zayd narrated to us, from Amr ibn Shu‘ayb, from his father, from his grandfather Abdullah ibn Amr, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he took one-tenth from honey.

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Muhammad ibn Rumh al-Misri narrated to us; al-Layth ibn Sa‘d narrated to us, from Nafi‘, from Ibn Umar, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered zakah al-fitr: one sa‘ of dates or one sa‘ of barley. Abdullah said: The people made its equivalent two mudd of wheat.

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Hafs ibn Amr narrated to us; Abd al-Rahman ibn Mahdi narrated to us; Malik ibn Anas narrated to us, from Nafi‘, from Ibn Umar, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prescribed zakah al-fitr: one sa‘ of barley or one sa‘ of dates for every free or enslaved Muslim, male or female.

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Abdullah ibn Ahmad ibn Bashir ibn Dhakwan and Ahmad ibn al-Azhar narrated to us; they said: Marwan ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Abu Yazid al-Khawlani narrated to us, from Sayyar ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Sadafi, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) prescribed zakah al-fitr as purification for the fasting person from idle talk and obscenity, and as food for the needy. Whoever pays it before the prayer, it is accepted zakah; whoever pays it after the prayer, it is one charity among other charities.

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Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Waki‘ narrated to us, from Sufyan, from Salamah ibn Kuhayl, from al-Qasim ibn Mukhaymirah, from Abu Ammar, from Qays ibn Sa‘d, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded us to give zakah al-fitr before zakah was revealed. When zakah was revealed, he neither commanded us nor forbade us, and we continued to do it.

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Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Waki‘ narrated to us, from Dawud ibn Qays al-Farra’, from Iyad ibn Abdullah ibn Abi Sarh, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: While the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was among us, we used to give zakah al-fitr: one sa‘ of food, one sa‘ of dates, one sa‘ of barley, one sa‘ of aqit, or one sa‘ of raisins. We continued doing that until Mu‘awiyah came to Medina. Among the things he said to the people was: ‘I think that two mudd of dark Syrian wheat equal one sa‘ of this.’ The people adopted that. Abu Sa‘id said: ‘I will continue giving it as I used to give it in the time of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), for as long as I live.’

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Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us; Abd al-Rahman ibn Sa‘d ibn Ammar, the caller to prayer, narrated to us; Umar ibn Hafs narrated to us, from Ammar ibn Sa‘d, the caller to prayer of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered zakah al-fitr: one sa‘ of dates, one sa‘ of barley, or one sa‘ of sult.

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Al-Husayn ibn Junayd al-Damagani narrated to us; Attab ibn Ziyad al-Marwazi narrated to us; Abu Hamzah narrated to us, saying: I heard Mughirah al-Azdi relate from Muhammad ibn Zayd, from Hayyan al-A‘raj, from al-Ala ibn al-Hadrami, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me to Bahrain—or to Hajar. I would come to an orchard shared between brothers, one of whom had become Muslim, and take one-tenth from the Muslim and kharaj from the polytheist.

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Abdullah ibn Sa‘id al-Kindi narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Ubayd al-Tanafisi narrated to us, from Idris al-Awdi, from Amr ibn Murrah, from Abu al-Bakhtari, from Abu Sa‘id, who attributed it to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he said: ‘A wasq is sixty sa‘.’

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Ali ibn al-Mundhir narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Fudayl narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Ubayd Allah narrated to us, from Ata ibn Abi Rabah and Abu al-Zubayr, from Jabir ibn Abdullah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘A wasq is sixty sa‘.’

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Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Abu Muawiyah narrated to us, from al-A‘mash, from Shaqiq, from Amr ibn al-Harith ibn al-Mustaliq, the nephew of Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah, from Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah, who said: I asked the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), ‘Does the spending I provide for my husband and the orphans in my care count as charity on my part?’ The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘She has two rewards: the reward of charity and the reward of kinship.’

Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us; Abu Muawiyah narrated to us; al-A‘mash narrated to us, from Shaqiq, from Amr ibn al-Harith, the nephew of Zaynab, from Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), with a report similar to this.

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Yahya ibn Adam narrated to us; Hafs ibn Ghiyath narrated to us, from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, from Zaynab bint Umm Salamah, from Umm Salamah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) commanded us to give charity. Zaynab, the wife of Abdullah, said, ‘Does it count as charity for me to give to my husband, who is poor, and to my brother’s orphaned sons? I spend on them in these ways and in every circumstance.’ He said, ‘Yes.’ The narrator said: She was skilled in handiwork.

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Ali ibn Muhammad and Amr ibn Abdullah al-Awdi narrated to us; they said: Waki‘ narrated to us, from Hisham ibn Urwah, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘It is better for one of you to take his ropes, go to the mountain, bring back a bundle of firewood on his back, sell it, and become self-sufficient through its price than to ask people, whether they give to him or withhold from him.’

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Ali ibn Muhammad narrated to us; Waki‘ narrated to us, from Ibn Abi Dhi’b, from Muhammad ibn Qays, from Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid, from Thawban, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever guarantees me one thing, I guarantee him Paradise.’ I said, ‘I will.’ He said, ‘Do not ask people for anything.’ Thawban would let his whip fall while he was riding and would not ask anyone to hand it to him; he would dismount and pick it up himself.

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Abu Bakr ibn Abi Shaybah narrated to us; Muhammad ibn Fudayl narrated to us, from Umarah ibn al-Qa‘qa‘, from Abu Zur‘ah, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever asks people for their wealth in order to have more, he is only asking for embers from Hell. So let him ask for little of it or much.’

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Muhammad ibn al-Sabbah narrated to us; Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash informed us, from Abu Husayn, from Salim ibn Abi al-Ja‘d, from Abu Hurayrah, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Charity is not lawful for a wealthy person, nor for one who is strong and sound.’

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Al-Hasan ibn Ali al-Khallal narrated to us; Yahya ibn Adam narrated to us; Sufyan narrated to us, from Hakim ibn Jubayr, from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid, from his father, from Abdullah ibn Mas‘ud, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever asks people for help while having enough to suffice him, his asking will come on the Day of Resurrection as scratches, gouges, or abrasions on his face.’ They said, ‘Messenger of Allah, what is enough to suffice him?’ He said, ‘Fifty dirhams or their value in gold.’ A man said to Sufyan, ‘Shu‘bah does not narrate from Hakim ibn Jubayr.’ Sufyan said, ‘Zubayd narrated it to us from Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Yazid.’

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Muhammad ibn Yahya narrated to us; Abd al-Razzaq narrated to us; Ma‘mar informed us, from Zayd ibn Aslam, from Ata ibn Yasar, from Abu Sa‘id al-Khudri, who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Charity is not lawful for a wealthy person except for five: a person employed to collect it, one who fights in the way of Allah, a wealthy person who buys it with his own money, a poor person who receives it as charity and then gives it as a gift to a wealthy person, or a debtor.’

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Isa ibn Hammad al-Misri informed us; al-Layth ibn Sa‘d informed us, from Sa‘id ibn Abi Sa‘id al-Maqburi, from Sa‘id ibn Yasar, that he heard Abu Hurayrah say: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: ‘Whoever gives charity from what is good—and Allah accepts only what is good—the Most Merciful takes it in His right hand, even if it is a single date. It grows in the palm of the Most Merciful until it becomes greater than a mountain. He nurtures it for the giver as one of you nurtures his foal or his young camel.’