The Obligation of al-Zakat (charity) and Necessary Payments from Properties
Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 5|Chapter 1
Al-Kāfi
Volume 3, Book 5, Chapter 1
The Obligation of al-Zakat (charity) and Necessary Payments from Properties
18ـ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنِ الْعَلاَءِ بْنِ رَزِينٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا (عَلَيْهِما الْسَّلام) أَنَّهُ سَأَلَهُ عَنِ الْفَقِيرِ وَالْمِسْكِينِ فَقَالَ الْفَقِيرُ الَّذِي لاَ يَسْأَلُ وَالْمِسْكِينُ الَّذِي هُوَ أَجْهَدُ مِنْهُ الَّذِي يَسْأَلُ.
18. Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Hassan from Safwan ibn Yahya from al-‘Ala’ ibn Razin from Muhammad ibn Muslim from one of them (the two Imam): “Someone asked the Imam عليه السلام, about poor and destitute. He replied, ‘Poor is one who does not ask for help. Destitute is of a worse condition and he asks for help.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/12)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 9