It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that a man from Banu Amir passed by him, and it was said: "This is one of the wealthiest of people." Abu Hurayrah called him and asked him about that, and he said: "Yes, I have a hundred red camels, a hundred tawny camels, and such-and-such a number of sheep and goats." Abu Hurayrah said: "Beware of the hooves of camels, and beware of the hooves of sheep; for I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'There is no man who has camels and does not pay their due in their hardship and their ease (najdah and risl)' - the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Their najdah and risl means their difficulty and their ease' - 'except that he will be laid out for them on a wide, level plain, and they will come to him as swift, as lively and as fat, or as large, as they ever were' - Shu'bah was in doubt - 'and they will trample him with their hooves and butt him with their horns. Whenever the last of them passes over him, the first of them is brought back to him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgement is passed between the people and he sees his path. And there is no servant who has cattle and does not pay their due in their hardship and their ease' - the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: 'Their najdah and risl means their difficulty and their ease' - 'except that he will be laid out for them on a wide, level plain, and they will come as swift, as lively, as fat and as large as they ever were, and they will trample him with their hooves and butt him with their horns. Whenever the first of them passes over him, the last of them is brought back to him, on a Day whose length is fifty thousand years, until judgement is passed between the people and he sees his path.'" Al-Abbas said to him: "And what is the due of camels, O Abu Hurayrah?" He said: "That you give the finest of them (in zakah), lend out the abundant milker, lend out its back for riding, lend the stud for mating, and give milk to drink." This hadith has a sahih chain, but the two Shaykhs did not record it; Muslim only recorded some of these wordings from the hadith of Suhayl from his father from Abu Hurayrah. It is said that Abu Umar al-Ghudani is Yahya bin Ubayd al-Bahrani; if that is so, Muslim used him as evidence. I do not know anyone who narrated it from Shu'bah other than Yazid bin Harun, and we did not write it with a high chain except from Abu al-Abbas al-Mahbubi.

Abu Zakariya al-Anbari, Ibrahim bin Abi Talib and Abdah bin Abdullah al-Khuza'i narrated this hadith to us; likewise Abu Ali al-Hafiz, Abu Abdurrahman al-Nasa'i and Muhammad bin Ali bin Sahl also transmitted it; all of them say that Yazid bin Harun narrated to us a hadith similar to it (like the previous narration).

Al-Harith bin Bilal narrates from his father (Sayyiduna Bilal bin al-Harith, may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) collected zakah from the mines of al-Qabaliyyah, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) had granted Bilal bin al-Harith the entire area of al-Aqiq as a land grant. When the time of Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) came, he said to Bilal: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not give you this land so that you would hold it back from the people; rather, he gave it to you so that you would work it." So Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) took that area of al-Aqiq (which Bilal was unable to work) and distributed it among the people. Bukhari used Nu'aym bin Hammad as evidence, and Muslim used al-Darawardi as evidence. This hadith is sahih, and the two Shaykhs did not record it.

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Rafi' (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) appointed a man from Banu Makhzum to collect zakah. He said to Abu Rafi': "Come with me so that you too may get a share of it." He said: "No, not until I ask the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him)." So he came to him (peace and blessings be upon him), and he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Indeed, charity (zakah) is not lawful for us, and the freed slaves of a people are counted as (coming under the same ruling as) the people themselves." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The one who collects unjust taxes (sahib maks) will not enter Paradise." Yazid bin Harun says: What is meant by it is the unjust 'ashshar (toll collector). This hadith is sahih on the condition of Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Umm al-Mu'minin Sayyidah Umm Salamah (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that while the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was in her house, with some of his Companions sitting with him talking, a man came and said: "O Messenger of Allah, how much is the zakah on such-and-such an amount of dates?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Such-and-such." The man said: "So-and-so transgressed against me and took such-and-such from me," that is, he took one sa' more. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Then how will it be with you when those who transgress against you even more severely than this come to collect from you?" The people began discussing it and the matter weighed heavily on them, until one of them said: "O Messenger of Allah, if a man is away from you with his camels, livestock and crops, and he pays the zakah of his wealth, but the due is exceeded against him, what should he do while he is absent?" The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever pays the zakah of his wealth willingly, for the pleasure of Allah and the Home of the Hereafter, and conceals nothing of his wealth, establishes the prayer and pays the zakah, and then (unjustly) his right is transgressed, and he takes up his weapon and fights for the sake of his right and is killed, he is a martyr." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

Aslam narrates that in the year of al-Ramadah (the year of famine), when the land was struck by drought, Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) wrote to Amr bin al-As, the governor of Egypt: "From the servant of Allah, Umar, Commander of the Believers, to al-As bin al-As: By my life, you do not care, so long as you and those with you grow fat, that I and those with me grow thin from hunger. Help, help!" Amr bin al-As wrote back: "Peace (be upon you). To proceed: Here I am, here I am at your service! A caravan is coming to you whose first camel will be with you and its last with me; moreover, I hope to find a way to send (provisions) by sea as well." When the first caravan arrived, Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) called Sayyiduna al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: "Go out with the head of this caravan and take it towards Najd, and bring to me as many households as you are able to bring; and for those you cannot bring, order that each household be given a camel with its load. Tell them to wear two garments, to slaughter the camel and melt down its fat, to dry its meat and make footwear from its hide; then let them take a handful of dried meat, a handful of fat and a handful of flour and cook it, and let them eat until Allah grants them provision." Al-Zubayr (may Allah be pleased with him) refused to go, so Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "By Allah, you will not find an opportunity like this (for good) until you leave this world." Then he called another man, I think it was Talhah, and he too refused. Then he called Sayyiduna Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him), and he went out for this task. When he returned, Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) sent him a thousand dinars. Abu Ubaydah said: "O Ibn al-Khattab, I did not work for you; I worked only for Allah, and I will not take anything for it." Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) also gave to us for some tasks he sent us on, which we disliked, but the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) did not accept our refusal. So, O man, accept it and use it to help you in your worldly needs." So Abu Ubaydah bin al-Jarrah (may Allah be pleased with him) accepted it. This hadith is sahih on the condition of Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Abdullah bin Buraydah narrates from his father (Sayyiduna Buraydah, may Allah be pleased with him), who narrates from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) that he (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever we appoint to a task and provide with a wage (rizq), whatever he takes (unlawfully) after that is ghulul (misappropriation)." This hadith is sahih on the condition of the two Shaykhs, but they did not record it.

Sayyiduna al-Mustawrid bin Shaddad (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Whoever takes up an official responsibility on our behalf, if he has no wife, let him marry; if he has no servant, let him take a servant; and if he has no house, let him acquire a house." The narrator said: And I was informed that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever takes anything (unlawfully) besides that is one who misappropriates, or a thief." This hadith is sahih on the condition of Bukhari, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.

Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The one who collects zakah (the 'amil) rightfully is like one who fights (a ghazi) in the path of Allah until he returns to his home." This hadith is sahih on the condition of Muslim, but the two Shaykhs did not record it.