Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 25 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had read what Umar ibn al- Khattab had written about zakat, and in it he found: “In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the ompassionate.” The Book of Zakat. On twenty-four camels or less zakat is paid with sheep, one ewe […]
Muwatta Malik is one of the earliest and most respected collections of hadith and Islamic jurisprudence, compiled by Imam Malik ibn Anas. It combines the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with the practices of the people of Madinah, serving as a foundational text for Maliki fiqh and Islamic legal tradition.
Book 17, Zakat, discusses the obligatory almsgiving, its calculation, and distribution.
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 26 Yahya related to me from Malik from Humayd ibn Qays al-Makki from Tawus al Yamani that from thirty cows, Muadh ibn Jabal took one cow in its second year, and from forty cows, one cow in its third or fourth year, and when less than that (i.e. thirty cows) […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 27 Yahya said that Malik said, concerning two associates, “If they share one herdsman, one male animal, one pasture and one watering place then the two men are associates, as long as each one of them knows his own property from that of his companion If someone cannot tell his […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 28 Yahya related to me from Malik from Thawr ibn Zayd ad-Dili from a son of Abdullah ibn Sufyan ath-Thaqafi from his grandfather Sufyan ibn Abdullah that Umar ibn al-Khattab once sent him to collect zakat. He used to include sakhlas (when assessing zakat), and they said, “Do you include […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 29 Yahya said that Malik said, “The position with us concerning a man who has zakat to pay on one hundred camels but then the zakat collector does not come to him until zakat is due for a second timeand by that time all his camels have died except five, […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 30 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban from al-Qasim ibn Muhammad that A’isha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Sheep from the zakat were brought past Umar ibn al-Khattab and he saw […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 31 Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said that Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Habban said, “Two men from the Ashja tribe told me that Muhammad ibn Maslama al-Ansari used tocome to them to collect their zakat, and he would say to anyone who owned livestock, ‘Select (the […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 32 Yahya related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam from Ata ibn Yasar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “Zakat is not permissible for someone who is not in need except for five: someone fighting in the way of Allah, someone who […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 33 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Abu Bakr as-Siddiq said, “If they withhold even a hobbling cord I will fight them over it.” حَدَّثَنِي يَحْيَى، عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ بَلَغَهُ أَنَّ أَبَا بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقَ، قَالَ لَوْ مَنَعُونِي عِقَالاً لَجَاهَدْتُهُمْ عَلَيْهِ . Muwatta Malik: Book 17, […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 34 Yahya related to me from Malik that Zayd ibn Aslam said, ”Umar ibn al Khattab drank some milk which he liked (very much) and he asked the man who had given it to him, ‘Where did this milk come from?’ The man told him that he had come to […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 35 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that one of the administrators of Umar ibn Abd al-‘Aziz wrote to him mentioning that a man had refused to pay zakat on his property. Umar wrote to the administrator and told him to leave the man alone and […]
Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 36 Yahya related to me from Malik from a reliable source from Sulayman ibn Yasar and from Busr ibn Said that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “On land that is watered by rain or springs or any natural means there is (zakat […]