It is narrated from Sayyiduna Anas bin Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) passed away and the Arabs apostatised (in the matter of zakah), Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: O Abu Bakr! Do you intend to fight the Arabs? Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said only this: "I have been commanded to fight people until they bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that I am the Messenger of Allah, and they establish the prayer and pay the zakah." So by Allah! If they refuse to give even a young goat which they used to give to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), I will certainly fight them over it. Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) says: Then when I saw that Allah had opened the chest of Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) to this view, I understood that it was the truth. This hadith is sahih al-isnad (with an authentic chain). Although the two Shaykhs did not take the narration of Imran al-Qattan, they have no evidence for abandoning him, for his hadith is sound. A supporting narration (shahid) for it is the hadith of Abu al-Anbas, which the two Shaykhs did not record:

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) states that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "I have been commanded to fight people until they bear witness that there is no god but Allah, and they establish the prayer and pay the zakah. Then their blood and their wealth will be protected from me, and their (inner) reckoning will rest with Allah, the Mighty and Majestic."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The first three people to enter Paradise and the first three people to enter Hell were presented to me. As for the three who will be the first to enter Paradise, they are: the martyr; a slave who worshipped his Lord excellently and was sincere towards his master; and a chaste, self-restraining person who, despite having many dependants, kept himself away (from the unlawful and from begging). As for the three who will be the first to enter Hell, they are: a tyrannical ruler; a wealthy person who does not fulfil the right of Allah in his wealth; and a poor person who is arrogant and wicked." Amir bin Shabib al-Uqayli is an elder from the people of Madinah whose hadith is sound. This is a foundational narration in this chapter, in the narration of which Yahya bin Abi Kathir is alone, and the two Shaykhs did not record it. A supporting narration (shahid) for it is the narration of al-A'mash from Abdullah bin Murrah:

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) states: The one who consumes usury (riba), the one who pays it, its two witnesses if they know it to be usury, the woman who tattoos and the woman who gets herself tattooed, the one who procrastinates in (paying) zakah, and the one who returns to the ignorant life of the desert Bedouin after having emigrated (hijrah): all of these have been declared accursed on the blessed tongue of Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) on the Day of Resurrection. This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, since he used Yahya bin Isa al-Ramli as evidence, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is zakah due on camels, zakah due on sheep and goats, zakah due on cattle, and zakah due on trade goods (bazz). And whoever stores up dinars, dirhams, or unrefined gold and silver, neither keeping it ready for a creditor nor spending it in the path of Allah, then it is hoarded treasure (kanz) with which he will be branded on the Day of Resurrection." Ibn Jurayj has also narrated it from Imran bin Abi Anas:

Sayyiduna Abu Dharr (may Allah be pleased with him) states that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "There is zakah due on camels, zakah due on sheep and goats, and zakah due on trade goods." Both of these chains are sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) sent him to Yemen, he said: "Take grain as zakah from grain, a sheep from sheep, a camel from camels and a cow from cattle." This chain is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs, provided that Ata bin Yasar's hearing from Sayyiduna Mu'adh bin Jabal is established, for I do not know this with certainty.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever leaves behind him a hoarded treasure (kanz: wealth on which zakah was not paid), on the Day of Resurrection it will be made to appear to him as an extremely venomous, bald serpent with two black spots above its eyes. It will pursue his mouth, and the person will say: Woe to you, what are you? It will reply: I am your treasure which you left behind you. It will keep pursuing him until he puts his hand into its mouth and it chews it up; then it will swallow the rest of his body as well." This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it. There is also an authentic supporting hadith (shahid) for it that meets his condition:

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "On the Day of Resurrection, the treasure of one of you (the wealth on which zakah was not paid) will appear as a bald serpent with two black marks over its eyes. It will pursue its owner, and the owner will seek refuge from it, but it will keep following him while he flees from it, until it takes his finger into its mouth." Imam Bukhari and Imam Muslim recorded the hadiths of Sayyiduna Ibn Mas'ud and Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them) in this chapter in abridged form (as a stern warning against withholding zakah), but they did not record this particular hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah and Sayyiduna Thawban (may Allah be pleased with them both).

Sulaym bin Amir al-Kala'i states: I heard Sayyiduna Abu Umamah (may Allah be pleased with him) saying that during the Farewell Hajj the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood among us, mounted on his she-camel al-Jad'a. He (peace and blessings be upon him) had placed both his feet in the stirrups and was raising his voice so that all the people could hear. He (peace and blessings be upon him) asked: "Can you hear my voice?" A man from the crowd said: (Yes.) What do you command us? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Worship your Lord, pray your five (daily) prayers, fast your month (of Ramadan), pay the zakah on your wealth and obey those in authority over you; you will enter the Paradise of your Lord." The narrator says: I asked: O Abu Umamah! How old were you on that day? He said: O my nephew! At that time I was thirty years old, and I was pushing forward between the camels (of the people), making my way to get close to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him). This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of Imam Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.