Muwatta' Malik 17-32

Translation

someone fighting in the way of Allah, someone who collects zakat, someone who has suffered (financial) loss (at the hands of debtors), someone who buys it with his own money, and some one who has a poor neighbour who receives some zakat and gives some as a present to the one who is not in need." Malik said, "The position with us concerning the dividing up of zakat is that it is up to the individual judgement of the man in charge (wali). Whichever categories of people are in most need and are most numerous are given preference, according to how the man in charge sees fit. It is possible that that may change after one year, or two, or more, but it is always those who are in need and are most numerous that are given preference, whatever category they may belong to. This is what I have seen done by people of knowledge with which I am satisifed." Malik said, "There is no fixed share for the collector of the zakat, except according to what the imam sees fit."

Notes

• قَالَ مَالِكٌ الأَمْرُ عِنْدَنَا فِي قَسْمِ الصَّدَقَاتِ أَنَّ ذَلِكَ لاَ يَكُونُ إِلاَّ عَلَى وَجْهِ الاِجْتِهَادِ مِنَ الْوَالِي فَأَىُّ الأَصْنَافِ كَانَتْ فِيهِ الْحَاجَةُ وَالْعَدَدُ أُوثِرَ ذَلِكَ الصِّنْفُ بِقَدْرِ مَا يَرَى الْوَالِي وَعَسَى أَنْ يَنْتَقِلَ ذَلِكَ إِلَى الصِّنْفِ الآخَرِ بَعْدَ عَامٍ أَوْ عَامَيْنِ أَوْ أَعْوَامٍ فَيُؤْثَرُ أَهْلُ الْحَاجَةِ وَالْعَدَدِ حَيْثُمَا كَانَ ذَلِكَ وَعَلَى هَذَا أَدْرَكْتُ مَنْ أَرْضَى مِنْ أَهْلِ الْعِلْمِ قَالَ مَالِكٌ وَلَيْسَ لِلْعَامِلِ عَلَى الصَّدَقَاتِ فَرِيضَةٌ مُسَمَّاةٌ إِلاَّ عَلَى قَدْرِ مَا يَرَى الإِمَامُ

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What scholars said about it

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• Zarqānī

  مرسل

  machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ) Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 555
• العظيم آبادي محمد بن علي

  مرسل

  machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ) Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 555
• Dāraquṭnī

  الله عليه وسلم قال لا تحل الصدقة لغني إلا بخمسة الحديث فقال حدث به عبد الرزاق عن معمر والثوري عن زيد بن أسلم عن عطاء بن يسار عن أبي سعيد قاله ابن عسكر عنه وقال غيره عن عبد الرزاق عن معمر وحده وهو أصح وروى هذا الحديث عبد الرحمن بن مهدي عن الثوري عن زيد بن أسلم قال حدثني الثبت عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم ولم يسم رجلا وهو الصحيح حدثنا أحمد بن محمد بن أبي شيبة ثنا محمد بن سهل بن عسكر ثنا عبد الرزاق أبنا سفيان الثوري ومعمر جميعا عن زيد بن أسلم عن عطاء بن يسار عن أبي سعيد الخدري قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لا تحل الصدقة لغني إلا بخمسة العامل عليها أو غازي في سبيل الله أو رجل اشتراها بماله أو مسكين تصدق بها عليه فأهدى منها لغني حدثنا علي بن عبد الله بن مبشر قال ثنا أحمد بن سنان ثنا عبد الرحمن بن مهدي عن سفيان عن زيد بن أسلم قال حدثني الثبت أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال لا تحل الصدقة لغني إلا بخمسة ثم ذكر نحو حديث عبد الرزاق

  machine translationﷺ said: "Charity is not lawful for a rich person except in five cases..." the hadith. He said: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated it from Maʿmar and al-Thawrī, from Zayd b. Aslam, from ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār, from Abū Saʿīd. Ibn ʿAskar said this from him, while others said: from ʿAbd al-Razzāq, from Maʿmar alone, and that is more sound (aṣaḥḥ). ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī narrated this hadith from al-Thawrī, from Zayd b. Aslam, who said: "The reliable one (al-thabt) narrated to me from the Prophet ﷺ," and he did not name a man, and that is the correct (ṣaḥīḥ) version. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Abī Shaybah narrated to us: Muḥammad b. Sahl b. ʿAskar narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Razzāq narrated to us: Sufyān al-Thawrī and Maʿmar informed us together, from Zayd b. Aslam, from ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār, from Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī, who said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "Charity is not lawful for a rich person except in five cases: the one who works to collect it, or a warrior in the cause of Allah, or a man who bought it with his own money, or a poor person to whom it was given in charity and who then gave some of it as a gift to a rich person." ʿAlī b. ʿAbdullāh b. Mubashshir narrated to us, he said: Aḥmad b. Sinān narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī narrated to us, from Sufyān, from Zayd b. Aslam, who said: "The reliable one (al-thabt) narrated to me that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: 'Charity is not lawful for a rich person except in five cases,'" then he mentioned something like the hadith of ʿAbd al-Razzāq. Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 555
• الزيلعى

  مرسل

  machine translationMursal (a report in which a Successor omits the Companion and attributes it directly to the Prophet ﷺ) Report a problem

  in موطأ مالك, p. 555

Same hadith, other wordings

• Sunan Abu Dawud 1635لاَ تَحِلُّ الصَّدَقَةُ لِغَنِيٍّ إِلاَّ لِخَمْسَةٍ لِغَازٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ لِعَامِلٍ عَلَيْهَا أَوْ لِغَارِمٍ أَوْ لِرَجُلٍ اشْتَرَاهَا بِمَالِهِ أَوْ لِرَجُلٍ كَانَ لَهُ جَارٌ مِسْكِينٌ فَتُصُدِّقَ عَلَى الْمِسْكِينِ فَأَهْدَاهَا
• Sunan Abu Dawud 1636قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ بِمَعْنَاهُ
• Misykatul Mashabih 1833وَعَنْ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ مُرْسَلًا قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسلم: " لَا تَحِلُّ الصَّدَقَةُ لِغَنِيٍّ إِلَّا لِخَمْسَةٍ: لِغَازٍ فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ أَوْ لِعَامِلٍ عَلَيْهَا أَوْ لِغَارِمٍ أَوْ لِرَجُلٍ اشْتَ

Other narrations of this report

Musnad Ahmad 12278Musannaf 'Abd al-Razzaq 7206Sunan al-Daraqutni 1997Sunan al-Daraqutni 1998

Narrators

1. 1
   ʿAṭāʾ b. Yasār al-Hilālī

   Trustworthy (thiqah), excellent (fāḍil), a man of admonitions and worship.d. 94 AH, or 97 AH, or 103 AH, or 104 AH
   عَطَاءُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ الْهِلَالِيُّثقة فاضل ، صاحب مواعظ وعبادة
   عن
2. 2
   Zayd b. Aslam

   trustworthy (thiqah), a scholar, and he would narrate with omission of the Companion link (yursil)d. 135 AH or 136 AH
   زَيْدِ بْنِ أَسْلَمَثقة عالم ، وكان يرسل
   عن
3. 3
   Mālik b. Anas

   The jurist (al-faqīh), the Imam of the Abode of Migration (Imām Dār al-Hijrah), the head of the proficient masters, and the foremost among the meticulous.d. 178 AH, or 179 AH
   مَالِكٌالفقيه ، إمام دار الهجرة ، رأس المتقنين ، وكبير المتثبتين

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Mishkat al-Masabih 1833