and needs no irrigation, as with grapevines and date palms. ‘Atharī refers to crops watered by rain, which the common people call al-‘idhy. Alternatively, it is said to refer to crops for which rainwater is collected into channels through which the water reaches them.

Abū ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-Barr said:

Among the lessons of the first hadith are that zakat is obligatory on the stated amount and that none is due on anything below it. A dhaw d is a group of three to ten camels. An ūqiyyah denotes a weight of forty dirhams; a nashsh is half an ūqiyyah; and a nawāh is five dirhams, as stated by Abū ‘Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām.

As for anything exceeding two hundred dirhams—the equivalent of five ūqiyyahs—the apparent meaning of this hadith is that zakat is obligatory on it, since the text does not exempt the excess, whereas it explicitly exempts anything below that amount. This establishes the obligation of zakat on five ūqiyyahs and above. This is the position of most scholars. It is related from ‘Alī and Ibn ‘Umar, and is the view of Mālik, al-Thawrī, al-Awzā‘ī, al-Layth, Ibn Abī Laylā, al-Shāfi‘ī, Abū Yūsuf, Muhammad, Ahmad, Ishāq, Abū ‘Ubayd, and Abū Thawr.

Another group held that no zakat is due on the excess until it reaches forty dirhams, or, in the case of gold, four dinars. This is related from ‘Umar and was the view of Sa‘īd, al-Hasan, Tāwūs, ‘Atā’, al-Zuhrī, Makhūl, ‘Amr ibn Dīnār