سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ اشْتَرَى مَتَاعاً وَ كَسَدَ عَلَيْهِ وَ قَدْ كَانَ زَكَّى مَالَهُ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَشْتَرِيَ الْمَتَاعَ مَتَى يُزَكِّيهِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ أَمْسَكَ مَتَاعَهُ يَبْتَغِي بِهِ رَأْسَ مَالِهِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ زَكَاةٌ وَ إِنْ كَانَ حَبَسَهُ بَعْدَ مَا يَجِدُ رَأْسَ مَالِهِ فَعَلَيْهِ الزَّكَاةُ بَعْدَ مَا أَمْسَكَهُ بَعْدَ رَأْسِ الْمَالِ قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يُوضَعُ عِنْدَهُ الْأَمْوَالُ يَعْمَلُ بِهَا فَقَالَ إِذَا حَالَ الْحَوْلُ فَلْيُزَكِّهَا .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad Bin Isa, from Hareyz, from Muhammad Bin Muslim who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who buys goods and they become un-saleable upon him, and he had already purified (paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> on) his wealth before he bought the goods. When should he purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If he withholds his goods seeking by it his capital wealth so there would be no <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon it; but if it was so that he withholds it after finding (recovering) the capital of his wealth, so upon him is the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> after having withheld it after (the recovery) of the capital wealth’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the man who has deposits of wealth with him to work with these. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘When the year passes by, so let him purify (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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