Al-Kafi · Hadith 24

The Book about people with Divine Authority · The Fay’, al-Anfal, al-Khums, its rules and the properties subject to al-Khums · Volume 1, book 4, chapter 130, Hadith 24

Original Arabic text

24ـ سَهْلٌ عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْهَمَذَانِيِّ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَى أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) أَقْرَأَنِي عَلِيُّ بْنُ مَهْزِيَارَ كِتَابَ أَبِيكَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) فِيمَا أَوْجَبَهُ عَلَى أَصْحَابِ الضِّيَاعِ نِصْفُ السُّدُسِ بَعْدَ الْمَئُونَةِ وَأَنَّهُ لَيْسَ عَلَى مَنْ لَمْ تَقُمْ ضَيْعَتُهُ بِمَئُونَتِهِ نِصْفُ السُّدُسِ وَلا غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ فَاخْتَلَفَ مَنْ قِبَلَنَا فِي ذَلِكَ فَقَالُوا يَجِبُ عَلَى الضِّيَاعِ الْخُمُسُ بَعْدَ الْمَئُونَةِ مَئُونَةِ الضَّيْعَةِ وَخَرَاجِهَا لا مَئُونَةِ الرَّجُلِ وَعِيَالِهِ فَكَتَبَ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلام) بَعْدَ مَئُونَتِهِ وَمَئُونَةِ عِيَالِهِ وَبَعْدَ خَرَاجِ السُّلْطَانِ.

Published English translation

24. Sahl has narrated from Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Hamadani who has said the following. “I wrote to abu al-Hassan (a.s.) , ‘ail ibn Mahziyar read to me the letter of your father (a.s.) that said, “The owners of gardens pay three percent after deducting the expenses. Those whose gardens would not produce even the expenses there is nothing due on them.” A difference of opinion has risen among our people. They say that on the produce of the gardens there is al-Khums after the deduction of the expenses, the expenses of the garden not the expenses of the owner and his family. The Imam (a.s.) wrote back in answer, “Al-Khums is due after the deduction of the taxes to government and the expenses of one’s family.”

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Attributed scholarly assessments

Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi: ضعيف على المشهور

Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/282)

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Shaykh Baqir al-Behbudi: Catalogue non-inclusion note (not an authenticity grade)

Ṣaḥīḥ al-Kāfī

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