Al-Fitrah Charity Due to Fasting
Al-Kāfi|Volume 4|Book 2|Chapter 75
8ـ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بِلالٍ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى الرَّجُلِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَم) أَسْأَلُهُ عَنِ الْفِطْرَةِ وَكَمْ تُدْفَعُ قَالَ فَكَتَبَ سِتَّةُ أَرْطَالٍ مِنْ تَمْرٍ بِالْمَدَنِيِّ وَذَلِكَ تِسْعَةُ أَرْطَالٍ بِالْبَغْدَادِيِّ.
8. A number of our people have narrated from Muhammad ibn ‘Isa from Ali ibn Bilal who has said the following: “I once wrote to the man (the Imam) عليه السلام, asking about the amount of al-Fitrah. He (the Imam) wrote the answer, ‘It is six Artal of dates by al-Madiniy Artal which is nine Artal by al- Baghdadiy ones.”’
- Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/418)
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