Disciplines for Zakat Collector
Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 5|Chapter 22
4ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ يَحْيَى عَنْ غِيَاثِ بْنِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ جَعْفَرٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ كَانَ عَلِيٌّ (صلّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) إِذَا بَعَثَ مُصَدِّقَهُ قَالَ لَهُ إِذَا أَتَيْتَ عَلَى رَبِّ الْمَالِ فَقُلْ لَهُ تَصَدَّقْ رَحِمَكَ الله مِمَّا أَعْطَاكَ الله فَإِنْ وَلَّى عَنْكَ فَلاَ تُرَاجِعْهُ.
4. A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Muhammad ibn Yahya from Ghiyath ibn Ibrahim who has said the following: “Ja‘far, (abu ‘Abd Allah) عليه السلام, has narrated from his father who has that when Ali عليه السلام, would send a Zakat collector for his task and say to him, ‘When you go to Zakat payer, say to him, “Give charity, may Allah grant you blessings, out of what Allah has granted you.” If he turns away from you, then you must not go to him again.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/74)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, p. 24