Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: Al-Fitrah Charity Due to Fasting ِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْ٠َّدٍ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي نَجْرَانَ وَعَلِيِّ بْنِ الْحَكَ٠ِ عَنْ صَفْوَانَ الْجَ٠َّالِ قَالَ سَأَلْتُ أَبَا عَبْدِ الله (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) عَنِ الْفِطْرَةِ فَقَالَ عَلَى الصَّغِيرِ وَالْكَبِيرِ وَالْحُرِّ وَالْعَبْدِ عَنْ كُلِّ إِنْسَانٍ صَاعٌ ٠ِنْ حِنْطَةٍ أَوْ صَاعٌ ٠2.

A number of our people have narrated from Ahmad ibn Muhammad from ibn abu Najran and Ali ibn al-Hakam from Safwan al- Jammal who has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah (a.s.), about al-Fitrah. He (the Imam) said, ‘It is obligatory upon small, grown up people, free and slaves. The amount of al-Fitrah for every human being is one Sa‘ (three kilograms).

It can be paid from wheat or dates or raisins.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/414))