which I was carrying. ʿUmar said, “Will you not pay your zakat, O Ḥimās?” I replied, “I have nothing besides this, and I tan hides with qaraz.” (1) He said, “That is wealth; put it down.” So I put it down, and he assessed it and took the zakat due on it. (3)
Allah Most High says: “And from that which We have brought forth for you from the earth.” It was said that this refers to paying the tithes due on fruits and grains. The scholars ⦗48/A⦘ agree that the tithe is obligatory on date palms, grapevines, and staple grains, if they are irrigated by rainwater or by a river whose water reaches them without expense. If they are irrigated by a waterwheel or by drawing water, then half of a tithe is due.
ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Malīḥī informed us; Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Nuʿaymī informed us; Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf informed us; Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl informed us; Saʿīd ibn Abī Maryam informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Wahb informed us; Yūnus ibn Yazīd informed me, from Ibn Shihāb, from Sālim ibn ʿAbd Allah, from his father, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “For that which is watered by rain or springs, or is naturally watered, (4) one tithe is due; and for that which is irrigated by drawing water, half of a tithe is due.” (5)
ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn Muḥammad al-Khaṭīb informed us; ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad al-Khallāl informed us; Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Aṣamm informed us; al-Rabīʿ informed us; al-Shāfiʿī informed us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Nāfiʿ informed us, from Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Tammār, from Ibn Shihāb, from Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyab, from ʿAttāb ibn Usayd, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said concerning the zakat of grapevines: “Their yield is estimated as the yield of date palms is estimated; then their zakat is paid in raisins, just as the zakat of date palms is paid in dates.” (6)
(1) The plural of ihab: a hide before it is tanned.
(2) Qaraz: a well-known seed obtained from thorn trees and used for tanning hides.
(3) Narrated by al-Shafii in his Musnad, 1:229-230; al-Bayhaqi in al-Sunan, 4:147; and al-Daraqutni, 2:125. Ibn Hajar attributed it to Ahmad, Ibn Abi Shaybah, Abd al-Razzaq, and Said ibn Mansur, through Sufyan from Yahya ibn Said. See al-Talkhis al-Habir, 2:180. Al-Albani graded it weak in Irwa al-Ghalil, 3:311, because Abu Amr ibn Hamas is unknown, as al-Dhahabi stated in al-Mizan.
(4) Crops watered only by rainwater.
(5) Narrated by al-Bukhari, Book of Zakah, chapter on the one-tenth due on what is watered by rainwater and running water, 3:437; and Muslim, Book of Zakah, chapter on what is subject to one-tenth or half of one-tenth, no. 981, 2:675, on the authority of Jabir with different wording. Also narrated by the author in Sharh al-Sunnah, 6:42.
(6) Al-Shafii, 1:243. Narrated by al-Nasai, Book of Zakah, chapter on purchasing charity, 5:109; Ibn Majah, Book of Zakah, chapter on estimating the yield of date palms and grapes, 2:210-211; Abu Dawud, Book of Zakah, chapter on estimating grapes, 2:210-211; al-Tirmidhi, Book of Zakah, chapter on yield estimation, 3:306, who said: “A fair, uncommon hadith”; al-Bayhaqi, 4:122; al-Daraqutni, 2:132; and the author in Sharh al-Sunnah, 6:37. Ibn Hajar stated in al-Talkhis al-Habir, 2:171: “Its chain revolves around Said ibn al-Musayyib from Attab. Abu Dawud said that he did not hear from him, Ibn Qani said that he did not meet him, and al-Mundhiri said that its discontinuity is evident, since Said was born during Umar's caliphate while Attab died on the day Abu Bakr died. Ibn Abd al-Barr had previously noted this. Abu Hatim said: ‘The sound report from Said ibn al-Musayyib is that the Prophet instructed Attab’—a mursal report. This is the narration of Abd al-Rahman ibn Ishaq from al-Zuhri.” Al-Nawawi said: “Although this hadith is mursal, it is supported by the statements of the leading scholars.”