Chapter on Nature of Zakat al-Fitrah

From him, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr and Ali ibn Uthman, from Ishaq ibn Ammar, who said: I (narrator) asked Abu al-Hasan عليه السلام, peace be upon him, about ‘the (zakat of) Fitrah.’ Imam عليه السلام said: “The neighbors are more entitled to it, and there is no harm in giving the value of that in silver.”