سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ أَخْرَجَ زَكَاةَ مَالِهِ أَلْفَ دِرْهَمٍ فَلَمْ يَجِدْ مَوْضِعاً يَدْفَعُ ذَلِكَ إِلَيْهِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَى مَمْلُوكٍ يُبَاعُ فِيمَنْ يُرِيدُهُ فَاشْتَرَاهُ بِتِلْكَ الْأَلْفِ الدِّرْهَمِ الَّتِي أَخْرَجَهَا مِنْ زَكَاتِهِ فَأَعْتَقَهُ هَلْ يَجُوزُ لَهُ ذَلِكَ قَالَ نَعَمْ لَا بَأْسَ بِذَلِكَ قُلْتُ فَإِنَّهُ لَمَّا أَنْ أُعْتِقَ وَ صَارَ حُرّاً اتَّجَرَ وَ احْتَرَفَ وَ أَصَابَ مَالًا ثُمَّ مَاتَ وَ لَيْسَ لَهُ وَارِثٌ فَمَنْ يَرِثُهُ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنْ لَهُ وَارِثٌ قَالَ يَرِثُهُ الْفُقَرَاءُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ الَّذِينَ يَسْتَحِقُّونَ الزَّكَاةَ لِأَنَّهُ إِنَّمَا اشْتُرِيَ بِمَالِهِمْ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Ibn Fazzal, from Marwan Bin Muslim, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Ubeyd Bin Zurara who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who extracted a thousand Dirham of <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> of his wealth, but could not find its (appropriate) place to hand that over to him. So he looks at the owned slaves being sold, intending to buy him with that thousand Dirhams which he had extracted from his <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>, and liberate him. Is that allowed for him?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘Yes. There is no problem with that’. I said, ‘Supposing when he is liberated and becomes free, trades and becomes a craftsman, and attains wealth. Then he dies and there is no inheritor for him. So who would inherit him when there is no inheritor for him?’ He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘The poor Believers would inherit him, those who were deserving of the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>, because he, rather, was bought with their money’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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