Al-Kafi 5866

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Abu Umeyr, from Abdul Rahman Bin Hajjaj, (It has been narrated) from Muhammad Bin Khalid having asked Abu Abdullah^asws about the charity (<span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>), so he^asws said: ‘That is not acceptable from you’. So he said, ‘I do carry that in my wealth’. So Abu Abdullah^asws said to him: ‘Instruct a <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> collector that he should not assemble from water to the water (watering place), nor gather between the separate ones, nor separate between the gathered ones. And whenever he enters the wealth, so let him divide the sheep into two halves (groups), then its owner should choose which of the two groups he so likes to. So when he has chosen, so let him hand over (that group) to him. But if the owner of the sheep would prefer to have a sheep, or two sheep, or three from the other half, so let him hand these over to him. Then let him take its charity (<span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>). So when he extracts it, so let him divide it among the one he (the owner) intends to. So when it is evaluated upon a price, and if its owner wants it (the price), so he is more rightful with it, and if he does not want it, so let him (<span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> collector) sell it’.

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