Chapter on Zakat al-Fitrah

And from him, from Muhammad ibn Yahya, from Abdullah ibn Muhammad, from Ali ibn al-Hakam, from Dawud ibn al-Numan and Sayf ibn Amirah, from Ishaq ibn Ammar, who said: I (narrator) said to Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him: “A man does not have anything of al-fitrah except what he would pay on behalf of himself alone from al-fitrah; should he give it to a stranger, or should he and his dependents eat it?” Imam عليه السلام said: “He gives it to some of his dependents, then the other gives it on behalf of himself. They pass it around among themselves, and it becomes one fitrah on behalf of all of them.”