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

And from him, from Muhammad ibn al-Husayn, from some of our companions, from Abu Said al-Mukari, from Abu Basir, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said: I (narrator) asked Imam عليه السلام about ‘a man who hastens his zakat before the due time.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “When eight months have passed, then there is no harm.”