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 49

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 49 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had heard that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to his governors telling them to relieve any people who payed the jizya from paying the jizya if they became muslims. Malik said, “The sunna is that there is no jizya due from […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 50

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 50 Yahya related to me from Ibn Shihab from Salim ibn Abdullah from his father that Umar ibn al-Khattab used to take a twentieth from the cereals and olive oil of the Nabatean christians, intending by that to increase the cargo to Madina. He would take a tenth from pulses. […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 51

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 51 Yahya related to me from Malik from Ibn Shihab that as-Sa’ib ibn Yazid said, “As a young man I used to work with Abdullah ibn Utba ibn Masud in the market of Madina in the time of Umar ibn al-Khattab and we used to take a tenth from the […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 52

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 52 Yahya related to me from Malik that he had asked Ibn Shihab why Umar ibn al Khattab used to take a tenth from the Nabateans, and Ibn Shihab replied, “It used to be taken from them in the jahiliyya, and Umar imposed it on them.” وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، أَنَّهُ […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 53

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 53 Yahya related to me from Zayd ibn Aslam that his father said that he had heard Umar ibn al-Khattab say, “I once gave a noble horse to carry somebody in the way of Allah, and the man neglected it. I wished to buy it back from him and I […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 54

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 54 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that Umar ibn al-Khattab gave a horse to carry some one in the way of Allah, and then he wished to buy it back. So he asked the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 55

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 55 Yahya said that Malik was asked about whether a man who gave some sadaqa, and then found it being offered back to him for sale by some one other than the man to whom he had given it, could buy it or not, and he said, “I prefer that […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 56

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 56 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar used to pay the zakat al-fitr for those slaves of his that were at Wadi’l-Qura and Khaybar. Yahya related to me that Malik said, “The best that I have heard about the zakat al-fitr is that a […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 57

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 57 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi from Abdullah ibn Umar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, made the zakat of breaking the fast at the end of Ramadan obligatory on every muslim, whether freeman or slave, male or female, and […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 58

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 58 Yahya related to me from Malik from Zayd ibn Aslam from lyad ibn Abdullah ibn Sad ibn Abi Sarh al-Amiri that he had heard Abu Said al- Khudri say, “We used to pay the zakat al-fitr with a sa of wheat, or a sa of barley, or a sa […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 59

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 59 Yahya related to me from Malik from Nafi that Abdullah ibn Umar would always pay the zakat al-fitr in dates, except once, when he paid it in barley. وَحَدَّثَنِي عَنْ مَالِكٍ، عَنْ نَافِعٍ، أَنَّ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنَ عُمَرَ، كَانَ لاَ يُخْرِجُ فِي زَكَاةِ الْفِطْرِ إِلاَّ التَّمْرَ إِلاَّ مَرَّةً وَاحِدَةً […]

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 60

Muwatta Malik: Book 17, Hadith 60 Maliksaid, “Payment of all types of kaffara, of zakat al-fitr and of the zakat on grains for which a tenth or a twentieth is due, is made using the smaller mudd, which is the mudd of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, except in the […]