قُلْتُ لِأَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) رَجُلٌ فَرَّ بِمَالِهِ مِنَ الزَّكَاةِ فَاشْتَرَى بِهِ أَرْضاً أَوْ دَاراً أَ عَلَيْهِ فِيهِ شَيْءٌ فَقَالَ لَا وَ لَوْ جَعَلَهُ حُلِيّاً أَوْ نُقَراً فَلَا شَيْءَ عَلَيْهِ فِيهِ وَ مَا مَنَعَ نَفْسَهُ مِنْ فَضْلِهِ أَكْثَرُ مِمَّا مَنَعَ مِنْ حَقِّ اللَّهِ بِأَنْ يَكُونَ فِيهِ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad, from Hareyz, from Umar Bin Yazeed who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘A man flees with his wealth from the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>, and he buys a land with it, or a house. Is there anything upon him with regards to it?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘No, and if he makes it to be an ornament or a carving, so there would be nothing upon him; and what he has prevented himself from its merit is more than what he prevented from a Right of Allah<sup>azwj</sup> if it happened to be in it’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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