Chapter on Khums and Spoils of War (Ghanaim)
Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām|Volume 4|Book 1|Chapter 35
عَلِيُّ بْنُ مَهْزِيَارَ قَالَ قَالَ لِي أَبُو عَلِيِّ بْنُ رَاشِدٍ: قُلْتُ لَهُ أَمَرْتَنِي بِالْقِيَامِ بِأَمْرِكَ وَ أَخْذِ حَقِّكَ فَأَعْلَمْتُ مَوَالِيَكَ ذَلِكَ فَقَالَ لِي بَعْضُهُمْ وَأَيُّ شَيْءٍ حَقُّهُ فَلَمْ أَدْرِ مَا أُجِيبُهُ فَقَالَ» يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِمُ اَلْخُمُسُ« فَقُلْتُ فَفِي أَيِّ شَيْءٍ فَقَالَ» فِي أَمْتِعَتِهِمْ وَضِيَاعِهِمْ« قَالَ وَاَلتَّاجِرُ عَلَيْهِ وَاَلصَّانِعُ بِيَدِهِ فَقَالَ» ذَلِكَ إِذَا أَمْكَنَهُمْ بَعْدَ مَئُونَتِهِمْ«.
Ali ibn Mahziyar said: Abu Ali ibn Rashid said to me:
I (narrator) said to Imam عليه السلام: “You commanded me to undertake your affair and to take your right (khums), so I informed your followers of that. Then some of them said to me, ‘And what thing is his right?’ But I did not know what to answer him. Imam عليه السلام said: "The fifth (khums) is obligatory upon them." So I (narrator) asked: “In what thing?” Imam عليه السلام said: "In their goods and their estates." He (narrator) said: “And is it upon the merchant and the craftsman who works with his hand?” Imam عليه السلام said: "That is when it is possible for them after their expenses."
- Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām fī Sharḥ al-Muqniʿah, vol. 4, p. 158
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