وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ مَعَهُ الْمَالُ مُضَارَبَةً هَلْ عَلَيْهِ فِي ذَلِكَ الْمَالِ زَكَاةٌ إِذَا كَانَ يَتَّجِرُ بِهِ فَقَالَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَقُولَ لِأَصْحَابِ الْمَالِ زَكُّوهُ فَإِنْ قَالُوا إِنَّا نُزَكِّيهِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ وَ إِنْ هُمْ أَمَرُوهُ أَنْ يُزَكِّيَهُ فَلْيَفْعَلْ قُلْتُ أَ رَأَيْتَ لَوْ قَالُوا إِنَّا نُزَكِّيهِ وَ الرَّجُلُ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ لَا يُزَكُّونَهُ فَقَالَ إِذَا هُمْ أَقَرُّوا بِأَنَّهُمْ يُزَكُّونَهُ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ وَ إِنْ هُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا لَا نُزَكِّيهِ فَلَا يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَقْبَلَ ذَلِكَ الْمَالَ وَ لَا يَعْمَلَ بِهِ حَتَّى يُزَكُّوهُ . وَ فِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى عَنْهُ إِلَّا أَنْ تَطِيبَ نَفْسُكَ أَنْ تُزَكِّيَهُ مِنْ رِبْحِكَ قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَرْبَحُ فِي السَّنَةِ خَمْسَمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ وَ سِتَّمِائَةٍ وَ سَبْعَمِائَةٍ هِيَ نَفَقَتُهُ وَ أَصْلُ الْمَالِ مُضَارَبَةٌ قَالَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ فِي الرِّبْحِ زَكَاةٌ .
Translation
Sama’at said, ‘And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the man who happens to have the wealth with him for speculation. Is there <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon him regarding that wealth, when he would be trading with it?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘It is befitting for him that he should be saying to the owners of the wealth, ‘Purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> on it)’. So if they were to say, ‘We have already purified it (paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’, so there would not be anything upon him apart from that; but if they instruct him that he should be purifying it (paying <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>), then let him do so’. I said, ‘What is your view, if they were to say, ‘We have purified it (paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’, and the man knows that they have not purified it (paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Why are they acknowledging that they have purified it (paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)? so there is nothing upon him apart from that; and if they are saying, ‘We have nor purified it (not paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’, so it is not befitting for him that he should accept that wealth, nor work with it until he has purified it (paid <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>)’. And in another report from him<sup>asws</sup>: ‘Unless by the goodness of his self he purifies it (pays <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>) from his own profits’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the man who profits in the year by five hundred Dirhams, and six hundred, and seven hundred. It is his expenditure and the capital of the wealth speculated’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘There is no <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon him regarding the profit’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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