سَأَلَ الْمَدَائِنِيُّ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ إِنَّ لَنَا زَكَاةً نُخْرِجُهَا مِنْ أَمْوَالِنَا فَفِي مَنْ نَضَعُهَا فَقَالَ فِي أَهْلِ وَلَايَتِكَ فَقَالَ إِنِّي فِي بِلَادٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا أَحَدٌ مِنْ أَوْلِيَائِكَ فَقَالَ ابْعَثْ بِهَا إِلَى بَلَدِهِمْ تُدْفَعُ إِلَيْهِمْ وَ لَا تَدْفَعْهَا إِلَى قَوْمٍ إِنْ دَعَوْتَهُمْ غَداً إِلَى أَمْرِكَ لَمْ يُجِيبُوكَ وَ كَانَ وَ اللَّهِ الذَّبْحُ .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from Al Nazar Bin Suweyd, from Yahya Bin Imran, from Ibn Muskan, from Zureys who said, ‘Al-Madainy asked Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup>, ‘For use there is <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> we extract from our wealth. So among whom should we be placing it?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Among your people of the Wilayah’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘For the time being there is no one in the city from those in your<sup>asws</sup> Wilayah’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Send with it to their cities to be handed over to them, and do not hand it over to a group of people such that, tomorrow if you were to invite them to your matter, they would not be responding to you, and by Allah<sup>azwj</sup>, they would be slaughtered (by Al-Qaim<sup>asws</sup>)’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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