Zakat and sadaqa
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The Prophet's letter to the district of Kharif and Hamdan
A letter from the Messenger of God Muhammad to the district of Kharif and the people of the highland slopes and the sand dunes, with their envoy Dhu al-Mish'ar Malik ibn al-Namat and those of his people who became Muslim: the heights and lowlands of their land are theirs while they pray and pay zakat, to eat its acacia fruit and graze its pasture, under God's pact and the Messenger's protection, with the Muhajirun and Ansar as witnesses.The Prophet's letter to the kings of Himyar
A letter the Prophet sent to al-Harith ibn Abd Kulal, Nu'aym ibn Abd Kulal and al-Nu'man, qayl of Dhu Ru'ayn, Ma'afir and Hamdan, in answer to their letter announcing their Islam: it records meeting their envoy at Medina on his return from the land of the Romans, sets out the Muslims' duties of prayer, zakat, the fifth of booty with the Prophet's share and safi, the sadaqa rates on crops, camels, cattle and sheep, and rules that a Jew or Christian who converts is a believer while one who keeps his faith is not turned from it and owes a jizya of one full dinar per adult or its value in cloth. A second part addresses Zur'a Dhu Yazan, commending the envoys under Mu'adh ibn Jabal and stating that sadaqa is unlawful for Muhammad and his household.The Prophet's written charge to Amr ibn Hazm on sending him to Yemen
A written charge the Prophet gave Amr ibn Hazm when sending him to Banu al-Harith ibn Ka'b: fear God, take what is right, give good tidings, teach the Qur'an which none may touch but the pure, be gentle in right and severe against wrong, teach the rites of the greater hajj and the lesser (the umra), forbid praying in one small garment, sitting wrapped with the private parts exposed, braiding the hair at the nape, and tribal rallying-cries in strife; order full ablution, the five prayers at their times, Friday and its bath, the fifth of booty and the sadaqa rates on crops, camels, cattle and sheep, with the rule for Jews and Christians who convert and for those who keep their faith and owe a full dinar per adult or its value in cloth.The hadith of the five afflictions
Words of the Prophet to the Muhajirun transmitted by Abdullah ibn Umar in the account of Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf's dispatch: five things he sought refuge from befalling them: open indecency bringing plague, short measure bringing famine and tyranny, withheld zakat bringing drought, broken covenants bringing an outside enemy, and rulers not judging by God's book bringing internal strife.
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Concept
Akula (a fattened sheep kept for eating)
Akula is a sheep fattened to be eaten, male or female; the term is also applied to a woman who eats a great deal. The jurists agree that the zakat collector may not take an akula from the flock, following the prohibition on taking the choicest property.Aqt (dried curd, a food)
Aqt is a food made from churned milk, cooked and left until its water separates. Most jurists allow paying it as the zakat al-fitr, since it is a staple; the Hanafis allow it only by value. It is a ribawi item: the Malikis and Hanbalis allow exchanging it for its like, and the Shafi'is forbid it.Compulsory public loan
Distribution in Islam
Fay' (property restored without battle)
Fay' in al-Baladhuri's usage is property God restored (afaa) to the Muslims from the People of the Book without combat: after Khaybar was taken by force the people of Fadak made peace with the Prophet on half their land with its soil, 'so half of Fadak was the Prophet's alone because the Muslims had not charged upon it with horse or camel'; and Umar is reported saying 'the Prophet had three safaya — the land of Banu al-Nadir as an endowment for his contingencies, Khaybar divided into three parts, and Fadak for the wayfarers' — the governing verse being al-Hashr 59:7 concerning Banu al-Nadir's property. Fay' thus contrasts with ghanima: what was charged upon with horse and camel was divided among the fighters, while what was restored without fighting was the Prophet's to place where God placed it.Financial expiations (kaffarat)
Ihya al-mawat (reviving dead land)
Iqta' (land grant)
Iqta' in al-Baladhuri is the ruler's grant of lands to those deserving or requesting them; its limits in his reports include that a request need not be granted: Abyad ibn Hammal asked the Prophet for the salt flat at Ma'rib and, being told it was like freely flowing water ('id water), he refused to allot it to him, whereas Alqama ibn Wa'il al-Hadrami — as reported from his father — was granted land in Hadramawt; broader still were the Prophet's Khaybar grants, as he allotted al-Zubayr land with palms and trees, and among Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's arrangements his confirming the heirs in land the Prophet had provisioned after they were registered — so the iqta' runs between designation of public amenities that cannot be granted and the sovereign gift of dead or reclaimed land.Jizya (capitation on treaty peoples)
Jizya in al-Baladhuri is what the People of the Book pay per head under treaty in return for confirmation in their religion and lands: he reports from al-Zuhri 'the first of the People of the Book to pay the jizya, so far as we know, were the people of Najran, who were Christians; then the people of Ayla, Adhruh and the people of Adhri'at paid jizya in the Tabuk campaign'; its forms with him include a dinar per hālim per year — the treaty of Ayla totalling three hundred dinars, Jurash a dinar per hālim plus hospitality for Muslims, Adhruh a hundred dinars every Rajab, and the Jews of Maqna a quarter of the 'uruk catch, a quarter of the women's spinning and a quarter of the fruits — beyond which the people of Maqna owed 'no jizya and no corvée'; when Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz took office he had the people of Najran counted, found them at a tithe of their former number and said 'I see this treaty is a jizya on their heads, not a treaty on their lands — and the jizya of the dead and of the Muslim lapses', so he set them at two hundred hullas.Kharaj (land tax)
Kharaj in the usage of Futuh al-Buldan is the tax laid on land and produce owed by treaty peoples and dhimmis, the general name under which fall the capitation jizya and the tithe 'ushr on land: in the Prophet's letter to Najran the stipulated hullas are called 'the kharaj hullas', levied at two thousand a year in Safar and Rajab at an uqiyya apiece, and when the people of Najran presented their diminished numbers to Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz he judged 'I see this treaty is a jizya on their heads, not a treaty on their lands'; among its rulings transmitted by him are Umar's letter to the people of al-Ta'if on their vines 'there is no tithe on them', and the positions of Sufyan al-Thawri, Abu Yusuf, Malik and others on what crops and fruits incur the levy and the five-awsuq threshold — kharaj being the subject al-Baladhuri pursues in the book's closing chapters after exhausting the conquest reports.Maintenance of relatives (nafaqat al-aqarib)
Pasture (kala) in Islam
Ray': agricultural yield, rental proceeds, and waqf revenue in Islamic jurisprudence
Ray' lexically denotes growth, increase, and elevated ground, and in Islamic jurisprudence it signifies the agricultural produce of land, the fruits of trees, or the rental revenues derived from real estate and leased assets, in contrast to profit (ribh) generated through commerce. Legal transactions such as endowments (waqf), bequests (wasiyya), sharecropping (muzara'a), and agricultural irrigation partnerships (musaqat) may be established upon future yield, and scholars disagreed over whether an endower may stipulate the waqf's proceeds for himself: the Hanafis and Hanbalis permit it, whereas the Malikis and Shafi'is disallow it. Revenues of an endowment are distributed in accordance with the founder's stipulations, though maintenance and upkeep of the underlying property take precedence over distributing income so that the physical asset is preserved. Bequeathing the perpetual or temporary usufruct and proceeds of an estate is valid, granting ownership of the property to heirs while granting income to the legatee, and irrigation partnerships for a proportional share of fruit are valid. Sharecropping for an undivided percentage of agricultural output is permissible according to the majority of Companions and jurists, and an unlawful usurper of real property is liable for fair rental yield according to the Malikis, Shafi'is, and Hanbalis. Zakat on agricultural produce and fruits is obligatory upon land output as established in surah al-Baqarah: 267 and surah al-An'am: 141, the legal reason being actual fruitful growth, excluding spontaneously growing firewood or wild weeds not intended for cultivation.Rent of land in Islam
Compulsory levy on wealth (tawzif)
Distribution of water in Islam
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