Zakat & Charity

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

When the Prophet (ﷺ) sent him to the Yemen, he ordered him to take a male or a female calf a year old for every thirty cattle and a cow in its third year for every forty, and one dinar...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

This tradition has also been transmitted by Mu’adh through a different chain of narrators to the same effect.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

that the Prophet (ﷺ) sent him to Yemen. He then narrated the tradition something similar. He did not mention in this version cloths made in the Yemen nor did he refer to adult (unbelievers). Abu Dawud said This tradition has...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

I went myself or someone who accompanied the collector of the Prophet (ﷺ) told me: It was recorded in the document written by the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) not to accept a milking goat or she-camel or a (suckling) baby...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Suwaid bin Ghaflah reported The collector of the Prophet (ﷺ) came to us. I caught hold of his hand and read in the document that the goods were not to be combined nor were they to be separated for fear...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Nafi' ibn Alqamah appointed my father as charge d'affaires of his tribe, and commanded him to collect sadaqah (zakat) from them. My father sent me to a group of them; so I came to an aged man called Sa'r ibn...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Shafi' means a goat which has a baby in its womb. Abu Dawud said: I read in a document possessed by Abdullah ibn Salim at Hims: Abdullah ibn Mu'awiyah al-Ghadiri reported the Prophet (ﷺ) as saying: He who performs three...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) commissioned me as a collector of zakat. I visited a man. When he had collected his property of camels, I found that a she-camel in her second year was due from him. I said to...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

said When the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) sent Mu’adh to Yemen, he said to him You are going to a people who are people of the book. So call them to bear witness that there is no diety but Allah, and...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: He who collects more sadaqah than is due is like him who refuses to pay it.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

(Ibn Ubayd said in the version of his tradition that his name was not Bashir, but (it was) the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) (who had) named him Bashir) We said: (to the Messenger of Allah): The collectors of sadaqah collect...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The aforesaid tradition has also been narrated by Ayyub through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version adds We said Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) the collectors of sadaqah collect more than is due from us. Abu Dawud...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Riders who are objects of dislike to you will come to you, but you must welcome them when they come to you, and give them a free hand regarding what they desire. If they are just,...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Jabir bin ‘Abdallah told of some people, meaning nomadic Arabs, who came to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and said Collectors of zakat come to us and act unjustly. He said please those who collect the sadaqah from you. They...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

My father was one of those Companions who took the oath of allegiance at the hand of the Prophet (ﷺ) beneath the tree. The Prophet (ﷺ) said when the people brought him their sadaqah : O Allah, bless the family...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

There is to be no collecting of sadaqah (zakat) from a distance, nor must people who own property remove it far away, and their sadaqahs are to be received in their dwelling.

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

Explaining the meaning of Jalab and janab Muhammad bin Ishaq said The meaning of jalab said is that the zakat of animals should be collected at their places (dwellings), and they (animals) should not be pulled to the collector of...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

‘Umar bin Al Khattab gave a horse as alms in the way of Allah. He then found it being sold, and intended to buy it. So he asked the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) about this. He said Do not buy...

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: No sadaqah is due on a horse or a slave except that given at the breaking of the fast (at the end of Ramadan).

Sunan Abi Dawud

Zakat (Kitab Al-Zakat)

The Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) as saying No sadaqah is due from a Muslim on his slave or his horse.