Al-Kafi 5822

Translation

From him, from Muhammad Bin Hamza, from Al Isfahany who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘There happened to be some wealth for me upon the man, and I took possession from him. When should I purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)?’ He^asws said: ‘When you take possession of it, so purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’. I said, ‘Supposing I take possession of some of it in the middle of the year, and some of it after that?’ So he^asws smiled, then said: ‘How wonderful is what you are involved in’. Then he^asws said: ‘Whatever you take possession from him during the first six months, so purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>) for its year, and whatever you take possession of afterwards during the last six months, so face with it during the next year; and similar to that is when you benefit with wealth piece-meal during the year, all of it. So whatever you benefit from during the first six months, so purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>) in that year of yours, all of it; and whatever you benefit after that, so face with it the next year’.

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