Al-Kafi 5832

Translation

From him, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz Bin Abdullah, from Zurara who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far^asws, ‘A man has two hundred Dirhams apart from one Dirham (199) for ten months. The he attains one Dirham after that during the twelfth month, thus completing two hundred Dirhams with him. Is its <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon him?’ He^asws said: ‘No, until there passes by a year over it, and it is two hundred Dirhams. So if it was one hundred and fifty Dirham, and he attains fifty after the passing of a month, so there would be no <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon him until there passes by a year upon the two hundred’. I said, ‘Supposing there were two hundred Dirhams with him apart from one, and days pass by over it before the passing of the month. Then he attains one Dirham, so there come up the Dirhams, along with the one Dirham, a year over it. Would the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> be upon him?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes, and if the year does not pass over the whole, so there would be nothing upon him’. He (Hareyz) said, ‘And Zurara said, and Muhammad Bin Muslim, ‘Abu Abdullah^asws said: ‘Whichever man has wealth for him and the year passes by over it, so he should purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’. I said to him^asws, ‘Supposing he gifts it before its due day, by a month or by a day?’ He^asws said: ‘There would be nothing upon him, ever!’ He (Hareyz) said, ‘And Zurara said from him^asws that he^asws said: ‘But rather, this is at the status of a man who breaks (does not Fast) during a Month of Ramazan by one day during his stay, then he goes out at the end of the day in a journey, intending by that journey of his, invalidation of the expiation which would be Obligated upon him’. And he^asws said: ‘He, when he sees the crescent of the twelfth month, the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> would be Obligated upon him, but if he were to gift it before that, it is allowed, and there be nothing upon him, being at the status of the one who goes out, then breaks (does not Fast). But rather, he cannot prevent what a year has passed upon, but as for what a year has not passed upon, so it is for him to prevent, and it is not Permissible for him to prevent the wealth of others with regards to what a year has passed upon it’. Zurara said, ‘And I said to him^asws, ‘A man who has two hundred Dirhams for him, so he gifts it to one of his brothers, or his children, or his wife, (in order) to flee from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> by it. He does that before its due date by a month’. So he^asws said: ‘When the twelfth month comes by, so a year has passed over it and the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> is Obligated upon him with regards to it’. I said, ‘Supposing he does something new in it before the year’. He^asws said: ‘That is allowed for him’. I said, ‘He is fleeing from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> by it’. He^asws said: ‘What he has entered upon himself is more grievous than what he prevented from its <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>’. So I said to him^asws, ‘He is able upon it (getting it back)’. So he^asws said: ‘And what is his knowledge that he is able upon it, and it has gone out from his ownership?’ I said, ‘but he could hand it over to him upon a stipulation (that he would get it back)’. So he^asws said: ‘When he named it as a gift, the gift is allowed, and the stipulation drops (becomes invalidated), and the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> is ensured’. I said to him^asws, ‘And how come the stipulation drops (becomes invalid), and the gift proceeds, and the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> is ensured?’ So he^asws said: ‘This is an invalid stipulation, and the gift is ensured, having passed, and the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> is necessary for him as a punishment for him’. Then he^asws said: ‘But rather that is for him when he buys a house with it, or a land, or chattels’. Then Zurara said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘Your^asws father^asws said to me: ‘The one who flees from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> by it, so upon him is that he pays it’. He^asws said: ‘My^asws father^asws spoke the truth, that he should pay whatever is Obligated upon him, and whatever is not Obligated upon him, so there is nothing upon him with regards to it’. Then he^asws said ‘What is your view if a man were to have fainting upon him one day, then he dies, so his <span class="iTxt">Salāt</span> would have gone (missed out on), would it be upon him to pay it back and he has died?’ I said, ‘No, unless he happens to be awake from his day’. Then he^asws said: ‘If a man was sick during a Month of Ramazan, then dies during it, would Fasting be done on his behalf?’ I said, ‘No’. He^asws said: ‘So similar to that is the man who does not pay from his wealth except what a year has passed over it’.

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