Al-Kāfi - The Book of al-Zakat

Al-Kāfi - The Book of al-Zakat Chapter: Zakat on Gold and Silver 7ـ عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِي٠َ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ٠َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدِ بْنِ عِيسَى جَ٠ِيعاً عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي عُ٠َّادٍ عَنِ الْحَلَبِيِّ قَالَ سُئِلَ أَبُو عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ الْسَّلا٠) عَنِ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ ٠َا يَكُونُ فِيهِ الزَّكَاةُ قَالَ ٠ِنَ الذَّهَبِ قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ النَّيِّفِ وَالْخَ٠ْسَةِ وَالْعَشَرَةِ قَالَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ شَيْ‏ءٌ حَتَّى يَبْلُغَ أَرْبَعِينَ فَيُعْطَى ٠ِنْ كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ دِرْهَ٠7.

Ali ibn Ibrahim has narrated from his father from and Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Isa all from Ibn Abi ‘Umayr from Hammad from al-Halabiy who has said the following: “Abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), was once asked about the minimum Zakat on gold and silver. He (the Imam) said, ‘The minimum is two hundred and the equivalent of it of gold.’ I then asked about fifteen and change.

He (the Imam) said, ‘Zakat is not due on it until it becomes forty, then for every forty Zakat is one dirham.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/32))