Chapter on Ruling of All Grains in Zakat

Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 17

Chapter on Ruling of All Grains in Zakat

4 hadiths · 1 commentary

قال الشيخ رحمه الله:) ويزكى سائر الحبوب مما أنبتت الارض فدخل القفيز والمكيال بالعشر ونصف العشر كالحنطة والشعير سنة مؤكدة( إلى آخر الباب. قد بينا في أول هذا الكتاب انه لا تجب الزكاة المفروضة إلا في تسعة أشياء وانه ليس تجب الزكاة في شئ مما أنبتت الارض سوى الاربعة الاجناس: التمر والزبيب والحنطة والشعير، وان ما عداها فانما يزكى على طريق الاستحباب. والذى ورد في زكاة ما عدا هذه الاجناس الاربعة من الحبوب كلها محمولة على ما ذكرناه من الندب والاستحباب، فمن ذلك ما رواه:

The Shaykh (Al-Mufid), may Allah have mercy on him, said: “The rest of the grains from what the earth grows, which enter the qafiz (dry-measure used for grain) and the measure (mikyal), are given zakat at the rate of the tithe and half the tithe, like wheat and barley, as an emphasized Sunnah,” until the end of the chapter. We have already clarified at the beginning of this book that the obligatory zakat is not due except in nine things, and that zakat is not due on anything that the earth grows except the four categories: dates, raisins, wheat, and barley. As for what is other than them, it is only given zakat by way of recommendation and desirability. What has been reported concerning the zakat of all grains other than these four categories is to be understood according to what we have mentioned, namely recommendation and desirability. Among that is what he narrated (in the following hadith):

Hadith #1

محمد بن يعقوب عن علي بن ابراهيم عن ابيه عن حماد بن عيسى عن حريز عن محمد بن مسلم قال: سألته عليه السلام عن الحرث ما يزكى منه فقال: البر والشعير والذرة والدخن والارز والسلت والعدس والسمسم كل هذا يزكى وأشباهه

Muhammad ibn Yaqub, from Ali ibn Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad ibn Isa, from Hariz, from Muhammad ibn Muslim, who said: I (narrator) asked Imam , peace be upon him, about ‘cultivation, what of it is given zakat.’ Imam said: “Wheat, barley, corn (al-dhurrah), millet (al-dukhn), rice, sult (hulless barley), lentils, and sesame; all of this is given zakat, and what resembles it.”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 83
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb

Hadith #2

حَرِيزٌ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ : مِثْلَهُ وَ قَالَ »كُلُّمَا كِيلَ بِالصَّاعِ فَبَلَغَ اَلْأَوْسَاقَ اَلَّتِي يَجِبُ فِيهَا اَلزَّكَاةُ فَعَلَيْهِ اَلزَّكَاةُ« وَقَالَ» جَعَلَ رَسُولُ اَللَّهِ صَلَّى اَللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ اَلصَّدَقَةَ فِي كُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَنْبَتَتِ اَلْأَرْضُ إِلاَّ اَلْخُضَرَ وَ اَلْبُقُولَ وَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ يَفْسُدُ مِنْ يَوْمِهِ«.

Hariz, from Zurarah, from Abu Abdillah , peace be upon him: the like of it. And Imam said: “Everything that is measured by the sa’ and reaches the awsaq in which zakat becomes obligatory, then zakat is due upon it.” And Imam said: “The Messenger of Allah , may Allah bless him and his family, placed charity in everything that the earth produces, except vegetables, herbs, and everything that spoils within its day.”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 84
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb

Hadith #3

عَلِيُّ بْنُ اَلْحَسَنِ بْنِ فَضَّالٍ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ هَاشِمٍ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ زُرَارَةَ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ فِي اَلذُّرَةِ شَيْءٌ قَالَ» اَلذُّرَةُ وَاَلْعَدَسُ وَاَلسُّلْتُ وَ اَلْحُبُوبُ فِيهَا مِثْلُ مَا فِي اَلْحِنْطَةِ وَ اَلشَّعِيرِ وَ كُلُّ مَا كِيلَ بِالصَّاعِ فَبَلَغَ اَلْأَوْسَاقَ اَلَّتِي تَجِبُ فِيهَا اَلزَّكَاةُ فَعَلَيْهِ فِيهِ اَلزَّكَاةُ«.

Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Faddal, from Ibrahim ibn Hashim, from Hammad, from Hariz, from Zurarah, who said: I (narrator) said to Abu Abdillah , peace be upon him: “Is there anything due on millet (al-dhurrah)?” Imam said: “Millet (al-dhurrah), lentils, barley-like grain (al-sult), and grains, in them is the like of what is in wheat and barley. And everything that is measured by the sa’ and reaches the awsaq in which zakat becomes obligatory, then zakat is due upon it.”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 84
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb

Hadith #4

وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ حَرِيزٍ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ هَلْ فِي اَلْأَرُزِّ شَيْءٌ فَقَالَ» نَعَمْ« ثُمَّ قَالَ» إِنَّ اَلْمَدِينَةَ لَمْ تَكُنْ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَرْضَ أَرُزٍّ فَيُقَالَ فِيهِ وَ لَكِنَّهُ قَدْ جُعِلَ فِيهِ وَ كَيْفَ لاَ يَكُونُ فِيهِ وَ عَامَّةُ خَرَاجِ اَلْعِرَاقِ مِنْهُ«.

And from him, from Ibrahim, from Hammad, from Hariz, from Abu Basir, who said: I (narrator) said to Abu Abdillah , peace be upon him: “Is there anything due on rice?” Imam said: “Yes.” Then Imam said: “Indeed, Madinah at that time was not a land of rice, so that it would be mentioned regarding it. But it has indeed been placed in it, and how could there not be anything due on it, when most of the land tax (kharaj) of Iraq is from it?”

Ali Akbar al-Ghaffari
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 84
Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi
Ṣaḥīḥ al-Tahdhīb