Chapter on Time of Zakat

And from him, from Abu Jafar, from Ibn Abi Umayr and Ibn Abi Nasr, from Hammad ibn Uthman, from Ubaydullah ibn Ali al-Halabi, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘the charity of wealth that the ruler takes.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “I do not command you to repeat it.”