Remitting the Jizya for Converts under Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz

According to al-Salabi, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz remitted the poll tax from those of the protected people who had converted to Islam. ¹

He wrote to his officials that the poll tax should not be taken from one who testified to the two testimonies, faced the qibla and was circumcised. An official complained that the poll tax had fallen short because of the many who converted, and Umar answered that the Prophet had been sent as a caller, not as a tax-collector. ¹

The book attributes to the measure a financial and political effect: confidence between ruler and ruled grew, and many of the protected people converted, so that they paid the alms instead of the poll tax. ²

He imposed the poll tax in three classes according to wealth, and lifted it from the poor who could not pay. ³

The book gives no precise date; it falls within his caliphate from 99 AH.