collector, so he took the charity from our wealthy ones and returned it to our poor ones. I was a young orphan with no wealth of my own, so he gave me a young female camel (35).

Section: If one pays Zakat to someone he believes to be poor, he does not need to inform him that it is Zakat. Al-Hasan said: "Do you wish to shame him? Do not inform him." Ahmad ibn al-Husayn said: I asked Ahmad: "Should a man pay Zakat to someone and say, 'This is from Zakat,' or should he remain silent?" He replied: "Why would he rebuke him with such a statement? Let him give it to him and remain silent. What need is there to shame him?"

424 - Issue; He said: (And [it] shall not be given from the obligatory charity to parents, even if they ascend, nor to children, even if they descend.)

Ibn al-Mundhir said: The scholars are in consensus that Zakat may not be paid to parents in circumstances where the payer is legally compelled to provide maintenance for them. Furthermore, because paying one's Zakat to them enriches them regarding his maintenance, thereby absolving him of that obligation, and the benefit returns to himself; thus, it is as if he paid it to himself, so it is not permissible, just as if he were to pay off his own debt with it. Al-Khiraqi's statement "to the parents" means the father and the mother. His statement "even if they ascend" means their fathers and mothers, even if their level is far removed from the payer, such as the father's parents, the mother's parents, and the parents of each of them, even if their degree ascends, including those who inherit from him and those who do not. His statement "and the child, even if they descend" means even if their level descends from his male and female children, whether they are heirs or not. Ahmad explicitly stated this, saying: One should not give the parents from Zakat, [nor the child], nor the child of the child, nor the grandfather, nor the grandmother, nor the daughter's child. The Prophet, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, said: "Verily, this son of mine is a leader (2)," meaning al-Hasan, so he called him his son. This is because he is one of the two pillars of his lineage, so he resembles an heir, and because there is a partial and constituent kinship between them, unlike others.