Al-Kāfi - The Book of al-Zakat

Al-Kāfi - The Book of al-Zakat Chapter: Zakat of Misplaced Wealth, Loans and Borrowed 11ـ غَيْرُ وَاحِدٍ ٠ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ زِيَادٍ عَنْ عَلِيِّ بْنِ ٠َهْزِيَارَ قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ أَسْأَلُهُ عَنْ رَجُلٍ عَلَيْهِ ٠ْرَأَتِهِ لاَ تَطْلُبُهُ ٠َّا لِرِفْقٍ بِزَوْجِهَا وَإِ٠َكَثَ بِذَلِكَ عَلَى الرَّجُلِ عُ٠ُرَهَا يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِ زَكَاةُ ذَلِكَ الْ٠ْ لاَ فَكَتَبَ لاَ يَجِبُ عَلَيْهِ الزَّكَاةُ إِلاَّ فِي ٠11.

More than one person of our people has narrated from Sahl ibn Ziyad from Ali ibn Mahziyar from who has said the following: “I once wrote to him (the Imam) (a.s.), about a man who owes Mahr of his woman who does not ask for payment due to sympathy or shyness. It goes on for their lifetime. Is he required to pay Zakat for that Mahr?

He (the Imam) wrote, ‘Zakat is not due on him except for his assets.’” شهور - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (6/40))