سَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ لَهُ الدَّيْنُ عَلَى رَجُلٍ فَقِيرٍ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهُ مِنَ الزَّكَاةِ فَقَالَ إِنْ كَانَ الْفَقِيرُ عِنْدَهُ وَفَاءٌ بِمَا كَانَ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ دَيْنٍ مِنْ عَرْضٍ مِنْ دَارٍ أَوْ مَتَاعٍ مِنْ مَتَاعِ الْبَيْتِ أَوْ يُعَالِجُ عَمَلًا يَتَقَلَّبُ فِيهَا بِوَجْهِهِ فَهُوَ يَرْجُو أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مِنْهُ مَالَهُ عِنْدَهُ مِنْ دَيْنِهِ فَلَا بَأْسَ أَنْ يُقَاصَّهُ بِمَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُعْطِيَهُ مِنَ الزَّكَاةِ أَوْ يَحْتَسِبَ بِهَا فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ عِنْدَ الْفَقِيرِ وَفَاءٌ وَ لَا يَرْجُو أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مِنْهُ شَيْئاً فَلْيُعْطِهِ مِنْ زَكَاتِهِ وَ لَا يُقَاصَّهُ بِشَيْءٍ مِنَ الزَّكَاةِ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from his brother Al Hassan, from Zur’at Bin Muhammad, from Sama’at, (The narrator) asked from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, about the man who happens to have (collectable) debts for him upon a poor man, so he intends to give him from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>’. So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If the poor was having in his possession what he can fulfil with whatever was upon him from the debts, from a display of the house, or chattels from the chattels of the house, or a skill he can perform, fluctuating in its aspects, so he hopes that he can take his wealth which is in his possession from his debts, so there is no problem if he were to offset with what he intends to give him from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> (i.e. not pay him <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>). But if there does not happen to be in the possession of the poor one which can ful;fill, and he does not hpe to take anything from him, so let him give him from his <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>, and he should not offset anything from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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