قَدْ تَحِلُّ الزَّكَاةُ لِصَاحِبِ السَّبْعِمِائَةِ وَ تَحْرُمُ عَلَى صَاحِبِ الْخَمْسِينَ دِرْهَماً فَقُلْتُ لَهُ وَ كَيْفَ يَكُونُ هَذَا فَقَالَ إِذَا كَانَ صَاحِبُ السَّبْعِمِائَةِ لَهُ عِيَالٌ كَثِيرٌ فَلَوْ قَسَمَهَا بَيْنَهُمْ لَمْ تَكْفِهِ فَلْيُعِفَّ عَنْهَا نَفْسُهُ وَ لْيَأْخُذْهَا لِعِيَالِهِ وَ أَمَّا صَاحِبُ الْخَمْسِينَ فَإِنَّهُ يَحْرُمُ عَلَيْهِ إِذَا كَانَ وَحْدَهُ وَ هُوَ مُحْتَرِفٌ يَعْمَلُ بِهَا وَ هُوَ يُصِيبُ مِنْهَا مَا يَكْفِيهِ إِنْ شَاءَ اللَّهُ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Al Husayn Bin Saeed, from his brother Al hassan, from Zur’at, from Sama’at, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span> can be Permitted for the owner of the seven hundred and be Prohibited upon the owner of the five hundred’. So I said to him<sup>asws</sup>, ‘And can this happen to be?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘If it was so that the owner of the seven hundred ad a lot of dependants for him, and if he were to distribute between them, it would not suffice, so let him excuse himself from it (the <span class="iTxt">Zakāt</span>) and take it for his dependants; and as for the owner of the five hundred, so it is Prohibited upon him when he was alone and he was a craftsman, working with it, and he would be attaining from it what would suffice him, Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Willing’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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