Al-Kāfi - The Book of Fasting

Chapter: Al-Fitrah Charity Due to Fasting َّدُ بْنُ الْحُسَيْنِ عَنْ ٠َّدِ بْنِ الْقَاسِ٠ِ بْنِ الْفُضَيْلِ الْبَصْرِيِّ عَنْ أَبِي الْحَسَنِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلاَ٠) قَالَ كَتَبْتُ إِلَيْهِ الْوَصِيُّ يُزَكِّي عَنِ الْيَتَا٠َى زَكَاةَ الْفِطْرَةِ إِذَا كَانَ لَهُ٠َالٌ فَكَتَبَ لا زَكَاةَ عَلَى يَتِي٠َوْلاهُ وَهُوَ عَنْهُ غَائِبٌ فِي بَلَدٍ آخَرَ وَفِي يَدِهِ ٠َوْلاهُ وَيَحْضُرُ الْفِطْرُ أَ يُزَكِّي عَنْ نَفْسِهِ ٠َوْلاهُ وَقَدْ صَارَ لِلْيَتَا٠13.

Muhammad ibn al-Husayn has narrated from Muhammad ibn al-Qasim ibn al-Fudayl al-Basriy who has said the following: “I once wrote to abu al-Hassan (a.s.), and asked if the executor of the will is required to pay al-Fitrah for the orphans if they have any assets.

He (the Imam) wrote, ‘There is no al-Fitrah on orphans.’ I asked if a slave whose master dies who is in another location, and there is a certain amount of assets of his master in his hand; when the time for paying al-Fitrah comes: if he can pay for himself from the assets of his master, which has become assets of the orphans. He (the Imam) said, ‘Yes, he pays al-Fitrah for himself.’” صحيح - Allamah Baqir al-Majlisi (Mirʾāt al-ʿUqūl fī Sharḥ Akhbār Āl al-Rasūl (16/420))