Chapter on Additions Regarding Zakat
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 29
مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ عَنْ عِدَّةٍ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ أَسْبَاطٍ عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مَعْمَرٍ قَالَ أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو اَلْحَسَنِ اَلْعُرَنِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُهَاجِرٍ عَنْ رَجُلٍ مِنْ ثَقِيفٍ قَالَ: اِسْتَعْمَلَنِي أَمِيرُ اَلْمُؤْمِنِينَ عَلِيُّ بْنُ أَبِي طَالِبٍ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ عَلَى بَابِ بَانِقْيَا وَ سَوَادٍ مِنْ سَوَادِ اَلْكُوفَةِ فَقَالَ لِي وَ اَلنَّاسُ حُضُورٌ» اُنْظُرْ إِلَى خَرَاجِكَ فَجِدَّ فِيهِ وَ لاَ تَتْرُكْ مِنْهُ دِرْهَماً فَإِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ تَتَوَجَّهَ إِلَى عَمَلِكَ فَمُرَّ بِي« قَالَ فَأَتَيْتُهُ فَقَالَ لِي» إِنَّ اَلَّذِي سَمِعْتَهُ مِنِّي خُدْعَةٌ وَإِيَّاكَ أَنْ تَضْرِبَ مُسْلِماً أَوْ يَهُودِيّاً أَوْ نَصْرَانِيّاً فِي دِرْهَمِ خَرَاجٍ أَوْ تَبِيعَ دَابَّةَ عَمَلٍ فِي دِرْهَمٍ فَإِنَّمَا أُمِرْنَا أَنْ نَأْخُذَ مِنْهُمُ اَلْعَفْوَ«.
Muhammad ibn Yaqub, from a number of our companions, from Sahl ibn Ziyad, from Ali ibn Asbat, from Ahmad ibn Mammar, who said: Abu al-Hasan al-Urani informed me, who said: Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhajir narrated to me, from a man from Thaqif, who said:
Commander of the Faithful Ali ibn Abi Talib عليه السلام, peace be upon him, appointed me (narrator) over Bab Baniqya (district in Baghdad) and a district from the districts of al-Kufah. Imam عليه السلام said to me while the people were present: “Look to your land tax (kharaj), and strive in it, and do not leave from it a single dirham. Then when you want to go to your work, pass by me.” He (narrator) said: “So I came to Imam عليه السلام, and Imam عليه السلام said to me: ‘Indeed, what you heard from me was a stratagem. Beware of striking a Muslim, or a Jew, or a Christian, for a dirham of land tax (kharaj), or selling a work animal for a dirham, for we have only been commanded to take from them the surplus.’”
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 122
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