Section: Everything whose possession is forbidden is subject to Zakat if it reaches the nisaab (minimum threshold), or reaches (13) the nisaab when combined with what one already possesses, according to what we have mentioned.
453- Issue: He said: (Whatever is from rikāz, which is the buried treasure of the Age of Ignorance [Jahiliyyah], whether little or much, is subject to a fifth for the people of charity, and the remainder belongs to him (1)).
Al-difn (the buried), with a kasrah on the dāl: that which is buried. Al-rikāz: that which is buried in the earth. Its derivation is from rakaza, yarkuzu, similar to gharaza, yaghrizu (2): meaning to conceal (3). It is said: "He planted (rakaza) the spear," meaning he stuck its base (4) into the ground. From this is the word rikz, which is a faint sound. God the Almighty said: "Or do you hear a sound (rikzan) from them?" (5). The basis for the charity on rikāz is what Abu Hurayrah narrated from the Messenger of God (may God bless him and grant him peace) that he said: "The injury caused by an animal is blood-money (6), and in rikāz is the fifth." Agreed upon (7).
(13) In the original: "yablugh" (it reaches). (1) In [M]: "lahu" (to him). (2) This is how it is vocalized, and its middle radical is also dammah in the present tense. (3) In [M]: "khafī" (hidden). (4) In the original: "aslahu" (its origin). (5) Surah Maryam 98. (6) Jubār: meaning "wasted" or "uncompensated". The meaning of the hadith is that if a dumb animal escapes and causes injury to a person or something during its escape, then its injury is uncompensated. (7) Recorded by al-Bukhari in: The Chapter of One who digs a well in his own property does not guarantee, from the Book of Leasing (al-Musaqah), and in: The Chapter on the Fifth in Rikaz, from the Book of Zakat, and in: The Chapter on the Mineral is Jubar and the Well is Jubar, and The Chapter of the Animal is Jubar, from the Book of Blood-Money (al-Diyat). Sahih al-Bukhari 3/145, 2/160, 9/15, 16. And Muslim in: The Chapter of the Injury of the Animal, the Mineral, and the Well is Jubar, from the Book of Prescribed Punishments (al-Hudud). Sahih Muslim 3/1334, 1335. It was also recorded by Abu Dawud in: The Chapter of What has come regarding Rikaz and what is in it, from the Book of Land Tax (al-Kharaj), War Booty (al-Fay'), and Leadership, and in: The Chapter of the Animal, the Mineral, and the Well is Jubar, from the Book of Blood-Money (al-Diyat). Sunan Abi Dawud 2/161, 502. And al-Tirmidhi in: The Chapter of What has come that the injury of the animal is Jubar..., from the Chapters of Zakat, and in: The Chapter of What has come regarding the Animal, its injury is Jubar, from the Chapters of Legal Judgments. 'Aridat al-Ahwadhi 3/138, 6/145. And al-Nasa'i in: The Chapter of the Mineral, from the Book of Zakat. Al-Mujtaba 5/33. And Ibn Majah in: The Chapter of One who finds Rikaz, from the Book of Lost Property (al-Luqatah), and in: The Chapter of Jubar, from the Book of Blood-Money (al-Diyat). Sunan Ibn Majah 2/839, 891. And al-Darimi in: The Chapter of Rikaz, from the Book of Zakat, and in the chapter of= The Animal, its injury is Jubar, from the Book of Blood-Money (al-Diyat). Sunan al-Darimi 1/393, 2/196. And Imam Malik in: The Chapter of Zakat on Rikaz, from the Book of Zakat, and in: The Chapter of the Collective Blood-Money, from the Book of Blood-Money. Al-Muwatta 1/249, 2/869. And Imam Ahmad in: Al-Musnad 1/314, 2/228, 239, 254, 274, 285, 319, 382, 386, 406, 411, 415, 454, 456, 467, 475, 482, 493, 495, 499, 501, 507, 3/336, 354, 5/326, 327.
