Al-Kafi 5897

Translation

Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Ubeyd Bin Zurara who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdllah^asws saying: ‘There is none from a man who prevent a Dirham from a right except that he would spend two in other than its rightful way; and there is none from a man who prevents a right in his wealth except that Allah^azwj would Collar him, due to it, a snake of fire on the Day of Judgement’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘An understanding man paid his <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> to other than its deserving ones for a long time. Would it be upon him that he repeats it for a second time to its deserving ones when he does know them?’ He^asws said: ‘Yes’. I said, ‘Supposing he does not recognise its deserving ones so he does not give it, or does not know that is it upon him (to give), so he comes to know after that?’ He^asws said: ‘He should pay it to its deserving ones of what has passed’. He (the narrator) said, ‘I said to him^asws, ‘Supposing he did not know its deserving ones, so he handed it over to the one who was not deserving of it, and he had sought and strived, then came to know after that, the evil of what he had done’. He^asws said: ‘It is not upon him that he pays it another time’. And from Zurara, similar to it, apart from that, that he^asws said: ‘If he had strived, so he is blameless, and if he was deficient in the striving regarding the seeking (of the deserving recipient), so no’.

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