Chapter on Hastening Zakat and Delaying It Beyond the Times in Which It Becomes Obligatory

And from him, from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Ibn Mahbub, from Jamil ibn Salih, from Bukayr ibn Ayan, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu Ja’far عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘a man who sends his zakat, and it is stolen or lost.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “There is nothing upon him.”