Musnad Ahmad 72

Translation

✧ Abu Bakr wrote to them: These are the obligatory alms that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ imposed upon the Muslims, which Allah, Mighty and Majestic, commanded His Messenger ﷺ. Whoever is asked for them from the Muslims in their proper manner should give them, and whoever is asked beyond that should not give it. For less than twenty-five camels, in every five camels: one sheep. When they reach twenty-five, a bint makhad is due up to thirty-five. If there is no bint makhad, then a male ibn labun. When they reach thirty-six, a bint labun is due up to forty-five. When they reach forty-six, a hiqqah that can be mounted by the stallion is due up to sixty. When they reach sixty-one, a jadha'ah is due up to seventy-five. When they reach seventy-six, two bint labun are due up to ninety. When they reach ninety-one, two hiqqahs that can be mounted by the stallion are due up to one hundred and twenty. If they exceed one hundred and twenty, then in every forty a bint labun, and in every fifty a hiqqah. When the ages of camels differ in the obligatory alms, whoever has reached the alms of a jadha'ah but does not have a jadha'ah and has a hiqqah, it is accepted from him, and he adds with it two sheep if they are easy for him, or twenty dirhams. Whoever has reached the alms of a hiqqah but only has a jadha'ah, it is accepted from him, and the collector gives him twenty dirhams or two sheep. Whoever has reached the alms of a hiqqah but does not have it and has a bint labun, it is accepted from him, and he adds with it two sheep if they are easy for him, or twenty dirhams. Whoever has reached the alms of a bint labun but only has a hiqqah, it is accepted from him, and the collector gives him twenty dirhams or two sheep. Whoever has reached the alms of a bint labun but does not have a bint labun and has a bint makhad, it is accepted from him, and he adds with it two sheep if they are easy for him, or twenty dirhams. Whoever has reached the alms of a bint makhad but only has a male ibn labun, it is accepted from him and nothing is with it. Whoever has only four camels, there is nothing due on them unless their owner wishes. In the alms of sheep, in their grazing flocks, when they are forty, one sheep is due up to one hundred and twenty. If they increase, two sheep are due up to two hundred. If they increase by one, three sheep are due up to three hundred. If they increase further, in every hundred one sheep. In alms, an old ewe, a defective one, or a billy goat is not taken unless the giver wishes. Separate flocks are not combined, nor is a combined flock separated for fear of alms. Whatever belongs to two partners, they settle between themselves equally. If a man's grazing flock is one less than forty sheep, there is nothing due unless their owner wishes. In silver, a quarter of a tenth. If the wealth is only one hundred and ninety dirhams, there is nothing due unless its owner wishes.

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What scholars said about it

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• Yaḥyá b. Maʿīn

  لا يصح يرويه ثمامة عن أنس

  machine translationIt is not authentic (lā yaṣiḥḥ); Thumāmah narrates it from Anas. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 72
• الزيلعى

  هذا اللفظ ظاهره الانقطاع

  machine translationOn the face of it, this wording is disconnected (munqaṭiʿ). Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 72
• Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Bayhaqī

  حديث صحيح موصول إلا أن بعض الرواة قصر به

  machine translationA sound (ṣaḥīḥ) hadith with a connected chain (mawṣūl), except that some of the narrators shortened it. Report a problem

  in مسند أحمد, p. 72

Other narrations of this report

Sunan Ibn Majah 1799

Narrators

1. 1
   Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq

   Successor (Caliph) of the Messenger of Allah ﷺ (khalīfat rasūl Allāh ﷺ)d. 13 AH
   أَبُو بَكْرٍ الصِّدِّيقُخليفة رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
   أن
2. 2
   Anas b. Mālik

   a well-known Companiond. 90 AH, or 91 AH, or 92 AH, or 93 AH
   أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍصحابي مشهور
   عن
3. 3
   Thumāmah

   truthful (ṣadūq)d. after 110 AH
   ثُمَامَةَ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ أَنَسٍصدوق
   أخذت هذا الكتاب
4. 4
   Ḥammād b. Salamah

   trustworthy (thiqah), devout (ʿābid), the most reliable of people in narrating from Thābit; his memory changed towards the end of his lifed. 167 AH, or 165 AH.
   حَمَّادُ بْنُ سَلَمَةَثقه عابد ، أثبت الناس في ثابت ، وتغير حفظه بآخره
   حدثنا
5. 5
   Abū Kāmil

   trustworthy (thiqah), meticulous (mutqin), he used to narrate only from trustworthy narratorsd. 207 AH
   أَبُو كَامِلٍثقة متقن ، كان لا يحدث إلا عن ثقة
   حدثنا
6. 6
   Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal

   Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), an authority (ḥujjah).d. 241 AH, Abū Umayyah Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ṭarsūsī said: 242 AH, and no one followed him in his view
   أحمد بن حنبلثقة حافظ فقيه حجة

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