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Al-Mughni by Ibn Qudama - Edited by Al-Turki
Volume 4 · Page 167Section

Translation · EN

the absence of effort is the most common state, so its existence is not established in the presence of doubt regarding it. If the collector (sa'i) and the owner of the wealth disagree as to which of them was used for irrigation more, the statement to be accepted is that of the owner of the wealth without an oath, for people are not to be made to swear oaths regarding their alms (sadaqat). End quote.

Section: If a man has two orchards and irrigates one of them with expense (mu'nah) and the other without expense, he combines the yield of one with the other to complete the nisa' (threshold for Zakah), and he extracts (74) from that which was irrigated without expense its full tithe, and from the other half of the tithe, just as one combines one of two types with another and extracts from each of them what is required of it.

441 - Issue: He said: (The wasq is sixty sa's, and the sa' is five and one-third Iraqi ratls).

As for the fact that the wasq is sixty sa's, there is no disagreement regarding it. Ibn al-Mundhir said: It is the opinion of everyone known to us among the scholars. Al-Athram narrated from Salamah ibn Sakhr, from the Prophet (peace be upon him) that he said: "The wasq is sixty sa's." Abu Sa'id and Jabir also narrated from the Prophet (peace be upon him) similar to this. It was narrated by Ibn Majah (1). As for the fact that the sa' is five and one-third ratls, there is a difference of opinion which we mentioned in the Book of Purification (2), and we clarified that it is five and one-third Iraqi ratls. Thus, the total of five wasqs would be three hundred sa's, which is one thousand and six hundred Iraqi ratls. The Iraqi ratl is one hundred and twenty-eight dirhams and four-sevenths of a dirham, and its weight in mithqals

Notes

(73) In the original: 'yusqa'. (74) In [A] and [M]: 'aw akhraja'. (1) In: Chapter: The Wasq is Sixty Sa's, from the Book of Zakah. Sunan Ibn Majah 1/586, 587. Abu Dawud also recorded the hadith of Abu Sa'id in: Chapter: What Zakah is Due On, from the Book of Zakah. Sunan Abi Dawud 1/357. Al-Daraqutni, in: Chapter: On the Quantity of Alms in What the Earth Produces and the Valuation of Fruits, from the Book of Zakah. Sunan al-Daraqutni 2/129. And Imam Ahmad, in: Al-Musnad 3/59, 83. (2) Previously mentioned in 1/294.

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