Musnad Ahmad 15426

Translation

✧ Ibn 'Alqama appointed my father over the collection of the zakat of his people and ordered him to take their alms. He said: My father sent me with a group to bring him their alms. He said: I set out until I came to an old man called Sa'r, and I said: My father has sent me to you so that you may pay the zakat of your sheep. He said: O my nephew, what kind do you take? I said: We choose, so much so that we measure the udders of the sheep. He said: O my nephew, I will tell you that I was in a ravine among these ravines with my sheep during the time of the Prophet ﷺ, when two men came to me on a camel and said: We are the messengers of the Prophet ﷺ to you, so that you may pay the zakat of your sheep. I said: What is due upon me for them? They said: One ewe. So I went to a ewe whose place I knew, full of milk and fat, and brought it out to them. They said: This is a pregnant one, and the Messenger of God ﷺ has forbidden us to take a pregnant one. I said: Then what? They said: A young she-goat, a jadha'ah or a thaniyyah. He said: So I went to a young she-goat that was mu'tat - he said: al-mu'tat is one that has not given birth though its time of birth has come - and I brought it out to them. They said: Hand it over to us, so I gave it to them, and they placed it with them on their camel, then they departed.

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