Al-Kafi 5810

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘A man hands over some wealth to a man on loan upon a stipulation that the (payment of) <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> would be upon the lender, or the borrower’. He^asws said: ‘No, but its <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> (would be paid) by the one with whom it would be for a year, upon the borrower’. I said, ‘So there is no <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon its lender?’ He^asws said: ‘The wealth would not be purified (<span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> paid on) from two aspects in one year, and there is nothing upon the one handing over because there is nothing in his hand. But rather, the wealth is in the hand of the one who possesses it. Thus, the one in whose hand is the wealth would purify (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said, ‘So he would be purifying (paying <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>) from a wealth other than his own wealth?’ So he^asws said: ‘It is his wealth so long as it is in his hands, and that wealth is not for anyone other than him’. Then he^asws said: ‘O Zurara! What is your view if that wealth is lost or profited from, for whom would it (the profit) be, and upon whom would be (the loss)?’ I said, ‘The borrower’. He^asws said: ‘So for him is the excess, and upon him is the deficiency, and for him is that he marries, and wears (clothes) from it, and eat from it; and it is not befitting for him that he purifies it, but he has to purify it, for it is upon him’.

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