537 – Abu Rafiʿ reported: “The Prophet ﷺ appointed a man from the Banu Makhzum to collect the zakat. That man said to me, ‘Accompany me, for you will receive a share of it.’ I replied, ‘Not until I go to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and ask him.’ So I went to him and asked, and he said, ‘The client of a people is counted as one of them, and charity is not lawful for us.’ ” Related by Ahmad, the Three (Abu Dawud, al-Nasaʾi, and al-Tirmidhi), Ibn Khuzaymah, and Ibn Hibban (1).

Authenticity rating:
The hadith is sahih (sound).
Ibn ʿAbd al-Hadi says in al-Muḥarrar: “It was transmitted by Imam Ahmad, Abu Dawud, al-Nasaʾi, and al-Tirmidhi, who declared it ‘hasan sahih’. It was also authenticated by Ibn Khuzaymah, Ibn Hibban, and al-Hakim, and al-Dhahabi concurred.”

The report has additional sound corroborations, among them: the narration of al-Muṭṭalib b. Rabiʿah in Sahih Muslim, and the narration of Abu Hurayrah in al-Bukhari (1414) and Muslim (1069) concerning Hasan b. ʿAli, who picked up a date from the charity dates and put it in his mouth, whereupon the Prophet ﷺ said, “Do you not know that we do not eat charity?”

Al-ʿIraqi states in al-Takhlis: Further reports on the subject come from Rafiʿah b. Rafiʿ, recorded by Ahmad, al-Bukhari in al-Adab, and al-Hakim; from ʿUtbah b. Ghazwan, recorded by al-Tabarani; from ʿAmr b. ʿAwf, recorded by al-Tabarani, Ishaq, and Ibn Abi Shaybah; and from Abu Hurayrah, recorded by al-Bazzar.