Muwatta 690

Summary

The first report in the chapter on zakat on goods. Malik transmits from Yahya ibn Said, from Ruzayq ibn Hayyan, who was at the customs post of Egypt in the time of al-Walid, Sulayman and Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, that Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz wrote to him: take from Muslims passing your post, from what they trade with, one dinar from each forty dinars, and in proportion below that until twenty dinars; if it falls short by a third of a dinar, leave it. From the people of the protected covenant (dhimmis) take one dinar from each twenty dinars, and in proportion until ten dinars; if it falls short by a third of a dinar, leave it; and write them a letter for what you take, valid for the next year. ¹

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Belongs to the Muwatta, Book of Zakat. Source: the Muwatta. Mentions Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Ruzayq ibn Hayyan, Yahya ibn Said al-Ansari, al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik, Sulayman ibn Abd al-Malik, Egypt, the people of the protected covenant. Built on in the chapters on zakat and tithe (ushr).

The Founding of al-Ramla

In al-Baladhuri: al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik gave his brother Sulayman command of the Filastin jund, and he settled at Lydda then founded the city of al-Ramla and made it an amsar — the first thing he built being his palace and the house known as Dar al-Sabbaghin with a central cistern, then he laid out the mosque's plan and built it, taking the caliphate before completing it and finishing it in his reign, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz completing it while reducing the plan, saying 'the people of al-Ramla are content with this measure'; when Sulayman built for himself he gave people leave to build and they did, digging the canal called Barada and wells for them, a Christian clerk of Lydda named al-Batriq ibn al-Nakka overseeing the expenditure on the works and the congregational mosque; the city of al-Ramla did not exist before Sulayman, its site being a sandy tract; the Umayyads spent on its wells and canal after him, then the Abbasids did likewise, the charge issuing yearly from caliph to caliph until al-Mu'tasim entered it in the register, whence it became a standing annuity reckoned to the claimants.

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The Founding of al-Ramla