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[^4] Funds Subject To Zakat Regarding the items subject to zakat , there is some disagreement among the (‘a) school and other Muslim jurisprudential schools. The disagreement lies in two major points and arises from the difference between the jurisprudential ijtihad-based outcome of the followers of the (‘a) and the followers of other Muslim sects. Such difference, however, is not found in narrations and traditions reported from the (‘a).

Several traditions, reported from the (‘a), do declare such items as obligatory for zakat and, as a result, some scholars from the (‘a) school have adopted this opinion; however, these traditions have been understood by the master scholars of this school as recommending the payment of zakat on such items or as having been said as a consequence of taqiyyah because of the fact that other sacred texts and traditions restrict this tax to the nine aforementioned categories of property.