BOOK 5. KITAB AL-ZAKAT
(The Book of Zakat )
Chapter
- No Zakat is due from a Muslim or 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
- 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
- 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