Category:The Book of Zakat in Muwata Malik

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1. Yahya related to me from Malik from Amr ibn Yahya al Mazini thathis father said that he had heard Abu Said al Khudri say that theMessenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said There is no zakat on less than five camels there is no zakat on lessthan five awaq two hundred dirhams of pure silver and there is nozakat on less than five awsuq three hundred sa
2. Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn AbdarRahman ibn Abi Sasaca al Ansari from al Mazini from his father fromAbu Said al Khudri that the Messenger of Allah may Allah bless himand grant him peace said There is no zakat on less than five awsuqof dates there is no zakat on less than five awaq of silver and thereis no zakat on less than five camels
3. Yahya related to me from Malik from Urwa ibn Husayn from A ishabint Qudama that her father said When I used to come to Uthman ibnAffan to collect my allowance he would ask me Do you have anyproperty on which zakat is due If I said Yes he would deductthe zakat on that property from my allowance and if I said No hewould pay me my allowance in full
4. Malik said in the similar case of a man who had in his possession tendinars which he invested in trade and which reached twenty dinars bythe time one year had elapsed over them that he paid zakat on themright then and did not wait until a year had elapsed over them counting from the day when they actually reached the zakatableamount
5. Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Zurayqibn Hayyan who was in charge of Egypt in the time of al Walid Sulayman and Umar ibn Abd al Aziz mentioned that Umar ibn Abd al Aziz had written to him saying Assess the muslims that you comeacross and take from what is apparent of their wealth and whatevermerchandise is in their charge one dinar for every forty dinars andthe same proportion from what is less than that down to twenty dinars and if the amount falls short of that by one third of a dinar thenleave it and do not take anything from it
6. As for the people of theBook that you come across take from the merchandise in their chargeone dinar for every twenty dinars and the same proportion from whatis less than that down to ten dinars and if the amount falls short byone third of a dinar leave it and do not take anything from it
7. Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar fromAbu s Salih as Samman that Abu Hurayra used to say Anyone who haswealth on which he has not paid zakat will on the day of rising findhis wealth made to resemble a whiteheaded serpent with a sac of venomin each cheek which will seek him out until it has him in its power saying I am the wealth that you had hidden away
8. Andeven if the additional livestock that he acquired has had zakat takenfrom it the day before he bought it or the day before he inheritedit he must still pay the zakat on it when he pays the zakat on thelivestock he already has Yahya said that Malik said Thisis the same situation as some one who has some silver on which he paysthe zakat and then uses to buy some goods with from somebody else
9. Maliksaid in the case of a man who had sheep and goats which did not reachthe zakatable amount and who then bought or inherited an additionalnumber of sheep and goats well above the zakatable amount that he didnot have to pay zakat on all his sheep and goats until a year hadelapsed over them from the day he acquired the new animals whether hebought them or inherited them
10. Yahya said that Malik said concerning two associates If theyshare one herdsman one male animal one pasture and one wateringplace then the two men are associates as long as each one of themknows his own property from that of his companion If someone cannottell his property apart from that of his fellow he is not anassociate but rather a co owner Malik said It is notobligatory for both associates to pay zakat unless both of them have azakatable amount of livestock
11. There is however one difference inthat when a man has a zakatable amount of gold and silver and thenacquires an additional amount of wealth he leaves aside the wealth hehas acquired and does not pay zakat on it when he pays the zakat onhis original wealth but waits until a year has elapsed over what hehas acquired from the day he acquired it
12. If morethan one payment of zakat is due from the owner of the livestock hestill only has to pay zakat according to what the zakat collector actually finds in his possession and if his livestock has died orseveral payments of zakat are due from him and nothing is taken untilall his livestock has died or has been reduced to an amount belowthat on which he has to pay zakat then he does not have to pay anyzakat and there is no liability on him for what has died or for theyears that have passed
13. Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Muhammadibn Yahya ibn Habban said Two men from the Ashja tribe told me thatMuhammad ibn Maslama al Ansari used tocome to them to collect theirzakat and he would say to anyone who owned livestock Select theanimal for the zakat on your livestock and bring it to me and hewould accept any sheep that was brought to him provided it met therequirements of what the man owed
14. Yahya related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn Yasar thatthe Messenger of Allah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said Zakat is not permissible for someone who is not in need except forfive someone fighting in the way of Allah someone who collectszakat someone who has suffered financial loss at the hands ofdebtors someone who buys it with his own money and some one who hasa poor neighbour who receives some zakat and gives some as a presentto the one who is not in need
15. Malik said The tenth that is taken from olives is taken after they have beenpressed and the olives must come to a minimum amount of five awsuqand there must be at least five awsuq of olives
16. Malik said If a man has four awsuq of dates he has harvested four awsuq of grapes he has picked or four awsuq of wheat he hasreaped or four awsuq of pulses he has harvested the differentcategories are not added together and he does not have to pay zakaton any of the categ ries the dates the grapes the wheat or thepulses until any one of them comes to five awsuq using the sa of theProphet may Allah bless him and grant him peace as the Messenger ofAllah may Allah bless him and grant him peace said There is nozakat to pay on anything less than five awsuq of dates
17. Maliksaid If some one asks How can pulses be added up all together whenassessing the zakat so that there is just one payment when a man canbarter two of one kind for one of another while cereals can not bebartered at a rate of two to one then tell him Gold and silverare collected together when assessing the zakat even though an amountof gold dinars can be exchanged for many times tha tamount of silverdirhams
18. If one man ownsfive awsuq of what is harvested from one piece of land and the otherowns four awsuq or less the one who owns the five awsuq has to payzakat and the other one who harvested four awsuq or less does nothave to pay zakat
19. If however thegoods were intended for trade then the owner must pay zakat on themwhen he sells them as long as he has had them for a year from the daywhen he paid zakat on the property with which he bought them
20. He had nine platters and on each of the plattershe put some of every fruit and delicacy that there was and then sentthem to the wives of the Prophet may Allah bless him and grant himpeace and the one he sent to his daughter Hafsa was the last of themall and if there was any deficiency in any of them it was in Hafsa sportion
21. This is because jizya is only imposedon them on conditions which they have agreed on namely that theywill remain in their own countries and that war will be waged forthem on any enemy of theirs and that if they then leave that land togo anywhere else to do business they will haveto pay a tenth
22. Whoeveramong them does business with the people of Egypt and then goes toSyria and then does business with the people of Syria and then goesto Iraq and does business with them and then goes on to Madina orYemen or other similar places has to pay a tenth
23. Maliksaid Payment of all types of kaffara of zakat al fitr and of the zakat on grains for which a tenth or a twentieth is due is made using the smaller mudd which is the mudd of the Prophet may Allah bless him and grant him peace except in the case of dhihar divorce when the kaffara is paid using the mudd of Hisham which is the larger mudd
24. Yahya related to me that Malik had seen that the people ofknowledge used to like to pay the zakat al fitr after dawn had brokenon the day of the Fitr before they went to the place of prayer

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