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

And from him, from Ibn Abi Umayr, from al-Husayn ibn Uthman, from a man, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, said: I (narrator) asked Imam عليه السلام about ‘a man to whom a needy person comes, so he gives him from his zakat at the beginning of the year.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “If he is needy, then there is no harm.”