Chapter on Additions Regarding Zakat

This is indicated by what Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Mahbub narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad, from al-Barqi, from Abu Ja’far عليه السلام the Second عليه السلام, peace be upon him, who said: I (narrator) wrote to Imam عليه السلام: “Is it permissible, may I be made your ransom, that what is obligatory from cultivation, from wheat and barley. And what is obligatory upon gold, be taken out as dirhams according to the value of what it is worth, or is it not permissible except that from each thing, what is in it be taken out?” So the Imam عليه السلام, peace be upon him, answered: “Whichever is easier may be taken out.”