What is intended by these two reports, and whatever runs according to their course from what has been narrated concerning this meaning, is that if hostility (nasb) is not known from him and he is one of the deemed weak (mustad'af), there is no harm in giving him sadaqat al-fitrah. It is also possible that this was permitted for a type of precautionary dissimulation (taqiyyah), and that has been clarified in the last report by his saying: “because of publicity (shuhrah).” Whenever there is no fear there and a believer is found, then it is not permissible to give it to anyone else, according to what we have mentioned. And that which indicates what we have mentioned, that what is intended by it is the deemed weak (mustad'afun).
Commentary #2