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 37

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 37 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ziyad ibn Sad that Ibn Shihab said, “Neither jurur, nor musran al-fara, nor adhq ibn hubayq should be taken as zakat from dates. They should be included in the assessment but not taken as zakat. ” Malik said, “This is the same […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 38

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 38 Yahya related to me from Malik that he asked Ibn Shihab about olives and he said, “There is a tenth on them.” Malik said, “The tenth that is taken from olives is taken after they have been pressed, and the olives must come to a minimum amount of five […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 39

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 39 Malik said, “If a man has four awsuq of dates he has harvested, four awsuq of grapes he has picked, or four awsuq of wheat he has reaped or four awsuq of pulses he has harvested, the different categories are not added together, and he does not have to […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 40

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 40 Malik said, “The sunna that we are all agreed upon here (in Madina) and which I have heard from the people of knowledge, is that there is no zakat on any kind of fresh (soft) fruit, whether it be pomegranates, peaches, figs or anything that is like them or […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 41

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 41 Yahya related to me from Malik from Abdullah ibn Umar from Sulayman ibn Yasar from Irak ibn Malik from Abu Hurayra that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, “A muslim does not have to pay any zakat on his slave or his […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 42

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 42 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab from Sulayman ibn Yasar that the people of Syria said to Abu Ubayda ibn al-Jarrah, “Take zakat from our horses and slaves,” and he refused. Then he wrote to Umar ibn al-Khattab and he (also) refused. Again they talked to […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 43

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 43 Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Abi Bakr ibn Amr ibn Hazim said, “A message came from Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz to my father when he was in Mina telling him not to take zakat from either honey or horses.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 44

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 44 Yahya related to me from Malik that Abdullah ibn Dinar said, “I asked Said ibn al-Musayyab about zakat on work-horses, and he said, ‘Is there any zakat on horses ?’ “ وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ دِينَارٍ، أَنَّهُ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ سَعِيدَ بْنَ الْمُسَيَّبِ عَنْ صَدَقَةِ الْبَرَاذِينِ، فَقَالَ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 45

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 45 Yahya related to me from Malik that Ibn Shihab said, “I have heard that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, took jizya from the magians of Bahrain, that Umar ibn al- Khattab took it from the magians of Persia and that Uthman ibn […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 46

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 46 Yahya related to me from Malik from Jafar ibn Muhammad ibn Ali from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab mentioned the magians and said, “I do not know what to do about them.” Abd ar-Rahman ibn Awf said, “I bear witness that I heard the Messenger of Allah, may […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 47

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 47 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Aslam, the mawla of Umar ibn al-Khattab, that Umar ibn al-Khattab imposed a jizya tax of four dinars on those living where gold was the currency, and forty dirhams on those living where silver was the currency. In addition, they […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 48

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 48 Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from his father that he said to Umar ibn al-Khattab, “There is a blind she- camel behind the house,” soUmar said, “Hand it over to a household so that they can make (some) use of it.” He said, “But […]