their needs," and he also said: "The charity of a people shall not be taken out from them from one land to another, unless there is a surplus beyond them." This is because what used to come to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), Abu Bakr, and Umar from charity was only from a surplus they had; they would be given what sufficed them, and the surplus beyond them would be taken out. Abu Ubayd narrated in his book "Al-Amwal," with his chain of narration from Amr ibn Shu'ayb, that Mu'adh ibn Jabal remained in Al-Janad when the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) sent him there until the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) passed away. Then he came to Umar, who returned him to the position he was in. Mu'adh sent him a third of the people's charity, but Umar disapproved of that and said: "I did not send you as a tax collector, nor as a taker of poll tax, but I sent you to take from the wealthy of the people and return it to their poor." Mu'adh said: "I have not sent you anything while I find someone who would take it from me." When the second year came, he sent him half of the charity, and they corresponded about it in the same way. When the third year came, he sent him all of it, and Umar corresponded with him in the same way, to which Mu'adh said: "I did not find anyone who would take anything from me." The same applies if he is in the desert and cannot find anyone to pay it to; he distributes it to the poor of the nearest lands to him.
Ahmad said, in a narration by Muhammad ibn al-Hakam: "If a man is in one land and his wealth is in another land, it is more beloved to me that it be paid where the wealth is. If some of it is where he is and some of it is in a city, he should pay the Zakah of each wealth where it is. If he is away from his city and his family, and the wealth is with him, it is easier to give some of it in this land and some of it in the other land. As for when the wealth is in the land he is staying in until he stays there for a full year, he should not send his Zakah to another land."
(10) In the original and B: "but". (11) In A and M: "from them". (12) Cited previously on page 132. (13) Al-Janad: A large city in Yemen to which various districts are subordinate. Between Al-Janad and Sana'a is fifty-eight farsakhs. Mu'jam al-Buldan 2/127. (14) In A and B: "then you return it".
