Anxiety & worry

Obligatory Charity Tax (Zakat)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 1496

لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ اللَّهُ وَأَنَّ مُحَمَّدًا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ، فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوا لَكَ بِذَلِكَ، فَأَخْبِرْهُمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ فَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ خَمْسَ صَلَوَاتٍ فِي كُلِّ يَوْمٍ وَلَيْلَةٍ، فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوا لَكَ بِذَلِكَ فَأَخْبِرْهُمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ فَرَضَ عَلَيْهِمْ صَدَقَةً تُؤْخَذُ مِنْ أَغْنِيَائِهِمْ فَتُرَدُّ عَلَى فُقَرَائِهِمْ، فَإِنْ هُمْ أَطَاعُوا لَكَ بِذَلِكَ فَإِيَّاكَ وَكَرَائِمَ أَمْوَالِهِمْ، وَاتَّقِ دَعْوَةَ الْمَظْلُومِ، فَإِنَّهُ لَيْسَ بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ اللَّهِ حِجَابٌ

lā ilaha illā-Llāh wa-anna muḥammadan rasūlu-Llāh, fa-in hum aṭāʿūā laka bidhalika, fa-akhbirhum anna-Llāh qad faraḍa ʿalayhim khamsa ṣalawātin fī kulli yawmin walaylatin, fa-in hum aṭāʿūā laka bidhalika fa-akhbirhum anna-Llāh qad faraḍa ʿalayhim ṣadaqatan tuʾkhadhu min aghniyāʾihim faturaddu ʿalā fuqarāʾihim, fa-in hum aṭāʿūā laka bidhalika fa-iyyāka wakarāʾima amwālihim, wāttaqi daʿwaha al-maẓlūmi, fa-innah laysa baynah wabayna-Llāh ḥijābun

Transliteration generated from the Arabic vowel marks

The full narration

Narrated Abu Ma`bad:(the slave of Ibn `Abbas) Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to Mu`adh when he sent him to Yemen, "You will go to the people of the Scripture. So, when you reach there, invite them to testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah, and that Muhammad is His Apostle. And if they obey you in that, tell them that Allah has enjoined on them five prayers in each day and night. And if they obey you in that tell them that Allah has made it obligatory on them to pay the Zakat which will be taken from the rich among them and given to the poor among them. If they obey you in that, then avoid taking the best of their possessions, and be afraid of the curse of an oppressed person because there is no screen between his invocation and Allah

Source

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī · 1496

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  • Agreed upon as authentic (al-Bukhārī / Muslim)
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