سَأَلَهُ سَعِيدٌ الْأَعْرَجُ وَ أَنَا أَسْمَعُ فَقَالَ إِنَّا نَكْبِسُ الزَّيْتَ وَ السَّمْنَ نَطْلُبُ بِهِ التِّجَارَةَ فَرُبَّمَا مَكَثَ عِنْدَنَا السَّنَةَ وَ السَّنَتَيْنِ هَلْ عَلَيْهِ زَكَاةٌ قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنْ كُنْتَ تَرْبَحُ فِيهِ شَيْئاً أَوْ تَجِدُ رَأْسَ مَالِكَ فَعَلَيْكَ زَكَاتُهُ وَ إِنْ كُنْتَ إِنَّمَا تَرَبَّصُ بِهِ لِأَنَّكَ لَا تَجِدُ إِلَّا وَضِيعَةً فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكَ زَكَاتُهُ حَتَّى يَصِيرَ ذَهَباً أَوْ فِضَّةً فَإِذَا صَارَ ذَهَباً أَوْ فِضَّةً فَزَكِّهِ لِلسَّنَةِ الَّتِي اتَّجَرْتَ فِيهَا .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ali Bin Al Hakam, from Ismail Bin Abdul Khaliq who said, ‘Saeed Al-A’araj asked him<sup>asws</sup> and I was listening, and he said, ‘We press the oil and the butter seeking the trading with it. So, sometimes it remains with us for the year and the two years. Is there <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon it?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If you have profited something in it (by the increase of the price), or if you find the capital of your wealth (same value), so upon you would be its <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>; but if you, rather, were waiting with it because you cannot find except for a loss, so there is no <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> upon you until it becomes either gold or silver. So when it does become gold or silver, then purify it (pay <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>) for the year in which you traded in’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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