Zakat & Charity

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Zakat

O Allah, bless them. So when Abu Aufa brought to him Sadaqa he (the Holy Prophet) said: O Allah, bless, the posterity of Abu Aufa.

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Zakat

(O Allah), bless them."

Sahih Muslim

The Book of Zakat

'When the collector of sadaqat (Zakat) comes to you, (you should see) that he goes away pleased with you.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Abu Hurairah said When the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) died and Abu Bakr was made his successor after him and certain Arab clans apostatized. Umar bin Al Khattab said to Abu Bakr How can you fight with the people until they...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

This tradition has also been transmitted by Al Zuhri through a different chain of narrators. This version has “Abu Bakr said its due is the payment of zakat.” He used the word “a rope of a Camel”

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

That the Apostle of Allaah(ﷺ) as saying No sadaqah(zakat) is payable on less than five camels, on less than five ounces of silver and on less than five camel loads(wasq).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: There is no zakat payable (on grain or dates) on less than five camel-loads. The wasq (one camel-load) measures sixty sa' in weight.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Ibrahim said The wasq contained sixty sa’s stamped with the stamp of Al Hajjaj.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

A man said to Imran ibn Husayn: AbuNujayd, you narrate to us traditions whose basis we do not find in the Qur'an. Thereupon, Imran got angry and said to the man: Do you find in the Qur'an that one dirham...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) used to order us to pay the sadaqah (zakat) on what we prepared for trade.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

A woman came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and she was accompanied by her daughter who wore two heavy gold bangles in her hands. He said to her: Do you pay zakat on them? She said: No. He then...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

I used to wear gold ornaments. I asked: Is that a treasure (kanz), Messenger of Allah? He replied: whatever reaches a quantity on which zakat is payable is not a treasure (kanz) when the zakat is paid.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

We entered upon A’ishah, wife of the Prophet (ﷺ). She said The Apostle of Allaah (ﷺ) entered upon me and saw two silver rings in my hand. He asked What is this, Aishah? I said I have made two ornaments...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The aforesaid tradition has also been narrated by ‘Umar bin Ya’la through a different chain of narrators, like the tradition of ring. Sufyan, a narrator, was asked How do you pay zakat on it. He said You may combine it...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

I took a letter from Thumamah bin ‘Abd Allah bin Anas. He presumed that Abu Bakr had written it for Anas when he sent him (to Al Bahrain) as a collector of zakat. This (letter) was stamped with the stamp...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) wrote a letter about sadaqah (zakat) but he died before he could send it to his governors. He had kept it with his sword. So AbuBakr acted upon it till he died, and then Umar...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Therefore said tradition has also been transmitted by Sufyan bin Husain through a different chain of narrators and to the same effect. This version adds “If there is no she Camel in her second year, a she Camel in her...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Ibn Shihab (Al Zuhri) said This is the copy of the letter of the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ), which he had written about sadaqah(zakat). This was in the custody of the descendants of ‘Umar bin Al Khattab. Ibn Shihab said Salim...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The statement of Umar bin Al Khattab “Those which are in separate flocks are not to be brought together and those which are in one flock are not to be separated” means Two persons had forty goats each ; when...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

I think, the Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Pay a fortieth. A dirham is payable on every forty, but you are not liable for payment until you have accumulated two hundred dirhams. When you have two hundred dirhams, five dirhams are payable,...