Yahya related to me from Malik from Amr ibn Yahya al-Mazini that his father said that he had heard Abu Said al-Khudri say that the Messenger 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 less than five awaq (two hundred dirhams of pure silver...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Muhammad ibn Abdullah ibn Abd arRahman ibn Abi Sasaca al-Ansari from al-Mazini from his father from Abu Said al-Khudri that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""There is no zakat on less than five awsuq of dates, there is no zakat on less than five...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to his governor in Damascus about zakat saying, ""Zakat is paid on the produce of ploughed land, on gold and silver, and on livestock."" Malik said, ""Zakat is only paid on three things:the produce of ploughed land, gold and silver, and li...

Yahya related to me from Malik that Muhammad ibn Uqba, the mawla of az Zubayr, asked al-Qasim ibn Muhammad whether he had to pay any zakat on a large sum given to him by his slave to buy his freedom. Al- Qasim said, ""Abu Bakr as-Siddiq did not take zakat from anyone's property until it had been in his possession for a...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Urwa ibn Husayn from A'isha bint Qudama that her father said, ""When I used to come to Uthman ibn Affan to collect my allowance he would ask me, 'Do you have any property on which zakat is due? 'If I said, 'Yes,' he would deduct the zakat on that property from my allowance, and if I ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to say, ""Zakat does not have to be paid on property until a year has elapsed over it

Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, ""The first person to deduct zakat from allowances was Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan."" (i.e. the deduction being made automatically) . Malik said, ""The agreed sunna with us is that zakat has to be paid on twenty dinars (of gold coin), in the same way as it has to be paid ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Rabia ibn Abi Abd ar-Rahman from more than one source that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, assigned the mines of al Qabaliyya, which is in the direction of al-Fur, to Bilal ibn Harith al-Mazini, and nothing has been taken from them up to this day exce...

Malik said, ""In my opinion, and Allah knows best, nothing is taken from what comes out of mines until what comes out of them reaches a value of twenty gold dinars or two hundred silver dirhams. When it reaches that amount there is zakat to pay on it where it is on the spot. Zakat is levied on anything over that, accor...

Malik said, ""The position which we are agreed upon, and which I have heard the people of knowledge mentioning, is that rikaz refers to treasure which has been found which was buried during the jahiliyya, as long as neither capital is required, nor expense, great labour or inconvenience incurred in recovering it. If ca...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to adorn his daughters and slave-girls with gold jewellery and he did not take any zakat from their jewellery. Malik said, ""Anyone who has unminted gold or silver, or gold and silver jewellery which is not used for wearing, must pay zakat on it every...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn al-Khattab said, ""Trade with the property of orphans and then it will not be eaten away by zakat

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Qasim that his father said, ''A'isha used to look after me and one of my brothers - we were orphans - in her house, and she would take the zakat from our property

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that A'isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to give the property of the orphans that were in her house to whoever would use it to trade with on their behalf

Yahya related to me from Malik that Yahya ibn Said bought some property on behalf of his brother's sons who were orphans in his house, and that that property was sold afterwards for a great deal of profit. Malik said, ""There is no harm in using the property of orphans to trade with on their behalf if the one in charge...

Yahya related to me that Malik said, ""I consider that if a man dies and he has not paid zakat on his property, then zakat is taken from the third of his property (from which he can make bequests), and the third is not exceeded and the zakat is given priority over bequests. In my opinion it is the same as if he had a d...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Ayyub ibn Abi Tamima as- Sakhtayani that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, when writing about wealth that one of his governors had collected unjustly, ordered it to be returned to its owner and zakat to be taken from it for the years that had passed. Then shortly afterwards he revised his order ...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yazid ibn Khusayfa that he had asked Sulayman ibn Yasar whether zakat was due from a man who had wealth in hand but also owed a debt for the same amount, and he replied, ""No."" Malik said, ""The position that we are agreed upon concerning a debt is that the lender of it does not pay...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Zurayq ibn 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 come across and take from what is apparent of their wealth and...

Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Dinar said, ""I heard Abdullah ibn Umar being asked what kanz was and he said, 'It is wealth on which zakat has not been paid

Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Dinar from Abu's-Salih as-Samman that Abu Hurayra used to say, ""Anyone who has wealth on which he has not paid zakat will, on the day of rising, find his wealth made to resemble a whiteheaded serpent with a sac of venom in each cheek which will seek him out until it has...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had read what Umar ibn al- Khattab had written about zakat, and in it he found: ""In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the ompassionate."" The Book of Zakat. On twenty-four camels or less zakat is paid with sheep, one ewe for every five camels. On anything above that, up to thirty-...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd ibn Qays al-Makki from Tawus al Yamani that from thirty cows, Muadh ibn Jabal took one cow in its second year, and from forty cows, one cow in its third or fourth year, and when less than that (i.e. thirty cows) was brought to him he refused to take anything from it. He said, ...

Yahya said that Malik said, concerning two associates, ""If they share one herdsman, one male animal, one pasture and one watering place then the two men are associates, as long as each one of them knows his own property from that of his companion If someone cannot tell his property apart from that of his fellow, he is...

Yahya said that Malik said, ""The position with us concerning a man who has zakat to pay on one hundred camels but then the zakat collector does not come to him until zakat is due for a second timeand by that time all his camels have died except five, is that the zakat collector assesses from the five camels the two am...

Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban said, ""Two men from the Ashja tribe told me that Muhammad ibn Maslama al-Ansari used tocome to them to collect their zakat, and he would say to anyone who owned livestock, 'Select (the animal for) the zakat on your livestock and brin...

Yahya related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn Yasar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ""Zakat is not permissible for someone who is not in need except for five:someone fighting in the way of Allah, someone who collects zakat, someone who has suffered (financial) loss (at...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq said, ""If they withhold even a hobbling cord I will fight them over it

Yahya related to me from Malik that Zayd ibn Aslam said, ''Umar ibn al Khattab drank some milk which he liked (very much) and he asked the man who had given it to him, 'Where did this milk come from?' The man told him that he had come to a watering-place, which he named, and had found grazing livestock from the zakat w...

Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that one of the administrators of Umar ibn Abd al-'Aziz wrote to him mentioning that a man had refused to pay zakat on his property. Umar wrote to the administrator and told him to leave the man alone and not to take any zakat from him when he took it from the other musl...