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

Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Mahbub, from Yaqub ibn Yazid, from Ibn Abi Umayr, from Muawiyah ibn Ammar, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said: I (narrator) said to Imam عليه السلام: “A man upon whom zakat becomes due in the month of Ramadan, so he delays it until Muharram.” Imam عليه السلام said: “There is no harm.” He (narrator) said: “I asked: ‘But it does not become due except in Muharram, so he hastens it in the month of Ramadan.’” Imam عليه السلام said: “There is no harm.”