BOOK 5. KITAB AL-ZAKAT
(The Book of Zakat )
Chapter
- No Zakat is due from a Muslim for his slave or his horse
- Sending off for the payment of Zakat and of refusing
to pay it
- Zakat (Sadaqa) Fitr is binding on every Muslim
- Taking out of Sadaqat-ul-Fitr before observing Fitr
prayer
- Sin of one who does not pay Zakat
- Pleasing of the collector
- The gravity of puniahment for one who does not pay Zakat
- Exhortation to give Sadaqa
- Hoarders of wealth and punishment to them
- Exhortation to spend and tidings to him who spends(on
good deeds)
- Excellence of spending on one's family, and servant,
and sin of one who neglects or withholds their subsistence
- Beginning of spending for one's own self, then for one's
family and then for relatives
- Excellence of spending and giving Sadaqa to relatives,to
wife, to children, and parents even if they are polytheists
- Getting of reward to Sadaqa for the dead given on his
or her behalf
- Sadaqa includes all types of good acts
- Concerning one who spends and who withholds
- Acceptance of Sadaqa by honest work and its growth
- Exhortation to Sadaqa even though it is half a date, or
a good word. for they are protection against fire
- The Labourer should give charity out of his wages and
it is severely forbidden to belittle one who contributes less
- Excellence of giving a gift
- The likeness of one who spends (in the path of Allah)
and one who withholds
- Proof of reward for the giver of charity even if it goes
into the hands of and undeserving person
- The reward for an honest trustee and for the woman as
she gives charity from the household of her husband.
either with his explicit sanction or as it is Customary
- Concerning the collection of Sadaqa and doing of good
deeds
- Exhortation to spend (for the sake of Allah) and
disapproval of calculating (the articles of charity)
- Exhortation to give charity even though it is small;
(the one who gives) small amount should neither be discouraged not looked down upon
- Excellence of giving Sadaqa secretly
- The most excellent Sadaqa is that which is given when
one is healthy and clowflated
- Concerning the statement that the upper hand is
better than the lower hand, and the upper hand is
that which gives and the lower one is that which receives
- It is forbidden to beg
- Miskin (poor man) is one who does not find enough to
satisfy him and the people do not consider him(needy) as to give him charity
- Disapproval of begging from people
- One for whom begging is permissible
- Permissibility to accept what is given without begging,
or without being avaricious
-
Disapproval of the longing for the (possessions of the material) world
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If there were two valleys (of gold for the son, of Adam, he would long for the third one
- one is not rich because of the abundance of goods
- Fear of what would come out of the adornment of the world
- Excellence of abstaining from begging and that of
endurance
- Giving charity to one who begged importunately or
with uncivility
- Bestowal upou one who is firm in faith
- Bestowal upon those who are made to incline (to truth)
- The Khwarij and their characteristics
- Exhortation to kill the Khwarij
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It is forbidden to pay Zakat to the Messenger of Allah
(may peace be upon him) and Banu Hashim and Banu Muttalib
- The posterity of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him)
is not allowed to make use of Sadaqa
- Accepting of gift by the Holy Prophet (may peace be
upon him) and refusing the Sadaqa
- Blessing for him who presents Sadaqa
- To please the collector of Zakat, unless he makes
an unjust demand