Chapter on Zakat of Wheat, Barley, Dates, and Raisins

Sa’ad ibn Abdullah from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from Ali ibn Mahziyar, who said: Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Shuja al-Naysaburi narrated to me: He (narrator) wrote to Abu al-Hasan al-Thalith عليه السلام (the Third), peace be upon him, about ‘a man who obtained from his estate one hundred kurrs of wheat, from which zakat is to be given, so the tenth was taken from it, ten kurrs, and thirty kurrs of it went because of the maintenance of the estate, and sixty kurrs remained in his hand. What is it that is obligatory for you (khums) from that, and is anything from that obligatory upon him for his companions?’ Imam عليه السلام, peace be upon him, wrote in reply: “For me from it is the khums from whatever remains beyond his expenses.”