سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) عَنْ رَجُلٍ كَانَتْ لَهُ قَرْيَةٌ عَظِيمَةٌ وَ لَهُ فِيهَا عُلُوجٌ ذِمِّيُّونَ يَأْخُذُ مِنْهُمُ السُّلْطَانُ الْجِزْيَةَ فَيُعْطِيهِمْ يُؤْخَذُ مِنْ أَحَدِهِمْ خَمْسُونَ وَ مِنْ بَعْضِهِمْ ثَلَاثُونَ وَ أَقَلُّ وَ أَكْثَرُ فَيُصَالِحُ عَنْهُمْ صَاحِبُ الْقَرْيَةِ السُّلْطَانَ ثُمَّ يَأْخُذُ هُوَ مِنْهُمْ أَكْثَرَ مِمَّا يُعْطِي السُّلْطَانَ قَالَ هَذَا حَرَامٌ .
Translation
A number of our companions, from Sahl Bin Ziyad and Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Mahboub, from Ibrahim Al Karkhy who said, ‘I asked Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup> about a man who had a great town for him, and for him therein were the people under the responsibility (<span class="iTxt">Zimmy</span>), and the Sultan (ruling authority) would take the tax from them. So he (government representative) would come to them and take fifty from one of them, and thirty from one of them, and less and more. So the owner of the town would reconcile on their behalf with the Sultan, then he would take from them more that what he had given to the Sultan’. He<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘This is Prohibited’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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