Chapter on Zakat of Gold
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 2
وَ عَنْهُ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ أَبِي عُمَيْرٍ عَنْ مُعَاوِيَةَ بْنِ عَمَّارٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ قَالَ: قُلْتُ لَهُ اَلرَّجُلُ يَجْعَلُ لِأَهْلِهِ اَلْحُلِيَّ مِنْ مِائَةِ دِينَارٍ وَ اَلْمِائَتَيْ دِينَارٍ وَأَرَانِي قَدْ قُلْتُ ثَلاَثِمِائَةِ دِينَارٍ فَعَلَيْهِ اَلزَّكَاةُ قَالَ» لَيْسَ فِيهِ اَلزَّكَاةُ« قَالَ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّهُ فَرَّ بِهِ مِنَ اَلزَّكَاةِ فَقَالَ» إِنْ كَانَ فَرَّ بِهِ مِنَ اَلزَّكَاةِ فَعَلَيْهِ اَلزَّكَاةُ وَ إِنْ كَانَ إِنَّمَا فَعَلَهُ لِيَتَجَمَّلَ بِهِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ زَكَاةٌ«.
And from him, from Muhammad ibn Abdullah, from Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, from Muawiyah ibn Ammar, from Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said:
I said to Imam عليه السلام: “A man makes jewellery for his family from one hundred dinars, two hundred dinars, and I think I said three hundred dinars; is zakat due on it?” Imam عليه السلام said: “There is no zakat in it.” He (the narrator) said: “I asked: ‘But he fled through it from zakat.’” Imam عليه السلام said: “If he fled through it from zakat, then zakat is due on him; And if he only did it in order to adorn himself with it, then there is no zakat upon him.”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 13
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