يُؤْخَذُ الْخُمُسُ مِنَ الْغَنَائِمِ فَيُجْعَلُ لِمَنْ جَعَلَهُ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ وَ يُقْسَمُ أَرْبَعَةُ أَخْمَاسٍ بَيْنَ مَنْ قَاتَلَ عَلَيْهِ وَ وَلِيَ ذَلِكَ قَالَ وَ لِلْإِمَامِ صَفْوُ الْمَالِ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ الْجَارِيَةَ الْفَارِهَةَ وَ الدَّابَّةَ الْفَارِهَةَ وَ الثَّوْبَ وَ الْمَتَاعَ مِمَّا يُحِبُّ وَ يَشْتَهِي فَذَلِكَ لَهُ قَبْلَ قِسْمَةِ الْمَالِ وَ قَبْلَ إِخْرَاجِ الْخُمُسِ قَالَ وَ لَيْسَ لِمَنْ قَاتَلَ شَيْءٌ مِنَ الْأَرَضِينَ وَ لَا مَا غَلَبُوا عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا مَا احْتَوَى عَلَيْهِ الْعَسْكَرُ وَ لَيْسَ لِلْأَعْرَابِ مِنَ الْغَنِيمَةِ شَيْءٌ وَ إِنْ قَاتَلُوا مَعَ الْإِمَامِ لِأَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) صَالَحَ الْأَعْرَابَ أَنْ يَدَعَهُمْ فِي دِيَارِهِمْ وَ لَا يُهَاجِرُوا عَلَى أَنَّهُ إِنْ دَهِمَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ دَهْمٌ أَنْ يَسْتَفِزَّهُمْ فَيُقَاتِلَ بِهِمْ وَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْغَنِيمَةِ نَصِيبٌ وَ سُنَّةٌ جَارِيَةٌ فِيهِمْ وَ فِي غَيْرِهِمْ وَ الْأَرْضُ الَّتِي أُخِذَتْ عَنْوَةً بِخَيْلٍ أَوْ رِكَابٍ فَهِيَ مَوْقُوفَةٌ مَتْرُوكَةٌ فِي يَدَيْ مَنْ يَعْمُرُهَا وَ يُحْيِيهَا وَ يَقُومُ عَلَيْهَا عَلَى مَا يُصَالِحُهُمُ الْوَالِي عَلَى قَدْرِ طَاقَتِهِمْ مِنَ الْحَقِّ النِّصْفِ وَ الثُّلُثِ وَ الثُّلُثَيْنِ عَلَى قَدْرِ مَا يَكُونُ لَهُمْ صَالِحاً وَ لَا يَضُرُّهُمْ .
Translation
Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, from Hammad, from one of his companions, (It has been narrated) from Abu Al-Hassan<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘The fifth would be taken from the war booty and it would be made to be for the one whom Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Made it to be for, and four-fifths would be distributed between the ones who fought over it, and they would be the owners of that’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And for the Imam<sup>asws</sup> would be the cleanest of the wealth if he<sup>asws</sup> were to like to take a slave girl, and the fancy animal, and the clothes, and the chattels from whatsoever he<sup>asws</sup> so loves and desires to, so that is for him<sup>asws</sup> before the distribution of the wealth, and before the extraction of the one-fifth’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘And there would be nothing for the fighters from the lands, nor what they overcome over it, except what the soldiers possess, and there would not be anything from the war booty for the Bedouins, even if they had fought alongside the Imam<sup>asws</sup>, because Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> had a treaty with the Bedouins that he<sup>saww</sup> would leave them in their houses and would not make them emigrate upon (the stipulation) that if Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> is raided upon from his<sup>saww</sup> enemies by a raid, they would be provoked and would fight with them, and there would not be a share for them in the war booty, and it is a flowing Sunnah with regards to them and others. And the land which is taken forcibly by a cavalry or riders, so it is dedicated to be left in the hands of the one who would fill it and revive it, and the governor would establish over it what would be correct for them in accordance to their (financial) strength from the right, the half and the third and the two-thirds, upon a measurement of whatever happens to be correct for them, and would not harm them’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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