Minimum and Maximum Amount of Zakat Payable to a Needy Person
Al-Kāfi|Volume 3|Book 5|Chapter 30
2ـ وَعَنْهُ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ عَنْ عَبْدِ الْمَلِكِ بْنِ عُتْبَةَ عَنْ إِسْحَاقَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ مُوسَى (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلام) قَالَ قُلْتُ لَهُ أُعْطِي الرَّجُلَ مِنَ الزَّكَاةِ ثَمَانِينَ دِرْهَماً قَالَ نَعَمْ وَزِدْهُ قُلْتُ أُعْطِيهِ مِائَةً قَالَ نَعَمْ وَأَغْنِهِ إِنْ قَدَرْتَ أَنْ تُغْنِيَهُ.
2. It is a narration from him (narrator of previous Hadith) by Ahmad from ‘Abd al-Malik ibn ‘Utaybah from Ishaq ibn ‘Ammar who has said the following: “I once asked abu al-Hassan عليه السلام, ’Can eighty dirham be given as Zakat to someone? He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, and increase it.’ I then asked, ‘Can one hundred dirham be given as Zakat to someone?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, you can make him rich if you can do so.’”
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/87)
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī, vol. 2, pp. 28, 29