Hadith 49

(The book) ‘Sawaab Al Amaal’ – My father, from Sa’ad, from Al Barqy, from his father, from Safwan Bin Yahya, from Dawood, from his brother Abdullah who said, ‘A person sent me to Abu Abdullah-asws alleging that he tends to panic during his sleep (dream) from a woman who comes to him. He said, ‘I scream until the neighbours hear! ’
Abu Abdullah-asws said: ‘Go and tell him, ‘You have not paid the Zakat! ’’
He said, ‘Yes, by Allah-azwj, I have paid it! ’
He-asws said: ‘Say to him, ‘If you have paid it, then you have not paid it to its rightful ones’’. [57]
And it is mentioned by Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah in a report by Abu Baseer who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘One who prevents the Zakat will ask to return during the death, and it is Word of Allah-azwj Mighty and Majestic: Until when the death comes to one of them, he says: ‘Lord! Return me [23: 99] Perhaps I may do righteous deeds among what I neglected’. [23: 100]’’. [58]
And it is reported by one of the meritorious ones, from ‘Jamie’ of Al Bazanty, from Jameel, from Rifa’at, – from him-asws, similar to it’. [59]
And it is reported by this chain, from him-asws having said: ‘Allah-azwj has not Imposed upon this community anything severer than the Zakat, and in it is destruction for their generality’’. [60]
(The book) ‘Majalis’ of the Sheykh – Al-Husayn Bin Ibrahim, from Muhammad Bin Wahban, from Muhammad Bin Ahmad Bin Zakariya, from Al-Hassan Bin Fazzal, from Ali Bin Uqba, from Asbaat, from Ayoub Bin Rashid who said, ‘I heard Abu Abdullah-asws saying: ‘The preventer of Zakat will be collared with a bald serpent eating from his brain, and that is the Word of Allah-azwj the Exalted: they would be collared with what they had been stingy with, on the Day of Qiyamah [3: 180]’’. [61]
And from him, by this chain from Ali Bin Uqba, from Rifa’at Bin Musa, ‘From Abu Abdullah-asws, he (the narrator) said, ‘I heard him-asws saying: ‘Allah-azwj, Mighty is His-azwj Mention, has not Imposed upon this community anything severer upon them than the Zakat, and the generality of them will not be destroyed except regarding it’’. [62]
(The book) ‘Nahj Al Balagah’ –
‘Amir Al-Momineen-asws said: ‘Protect your Eman by the charity, and fortify your wealth with the Zakat, and push back the afflictions by the supplication’’. [63]
And from it, he-asws said: ‘‘Allah-azwj the glorious has Imposed in wealth of the rich, daily subsistence of the poor. So a poor one will not be hungry except due to what the rich have enjoyed with it, and Allah-azwj the Exalted will Question them about that’’. [64]
And from it, he-asws said: ‘Then the Zakat was made to be with the Salat to be drawing nearer (to Allah-azwj) for the people of, so the one who gave it, made the self feel good by it, for it is Made as an atonement for him, and a removal from the Fire and a saviour. So not one should pursue it himself, nor frequent the eagerness upon it, for the one who gives it without making the self to feel good by it, hoping with