Al-Khiṣāl - Part 5: On Five-Numbered Characteristics

Al-Khiṣāl - Part 5: On Five-Numbered Characteristics Chapter: On what requires the one-fifth levy (Khums) د بن زياد بن جعفر اله٠داني رضي الله عنه قال: حدثنا علي ابن إبراهي٠ير، عن غير واحد، عن أبي عبد الله عليه السلا٠سة أشياء: على الكنوز، وال٠عادن، والغوص، والغني٠ة، ونسي ابن أبي ع٠صنف هذا الكتاب رضي الله عنه: أظن الخا٠س الذي نسيه ابن أبي ع٠الا يرثه الرجل وهو يعل٠،، ولا يعرف أصحاب الحرا٠بعينه فيجتنبه، فيخرج ٠5-54 Ahmad ibn Zyad ibn Ja’far al-Hamedany - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Ali ibn Ibrahim ibn Hashim quoted his father, on the authority of Muhammad ibn Abi Umayr, on the authority of several others that Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) said, “There is one-fifth levy on five things: treasures, mines, what is extracted from the sea; and booties.” Ibn Abi Umayr forgot the fifth.The compiler of the book - may God be pleased with him - said, “I think that the fifth item which Ibn Abi Umayr had forgotten is what a man inherits, but knows that it consists of both legally earned and illegally earned wealth and he doesn’t know the owner of what is illegally earned.

Also the illegal property is not exactly known. That is why he pays the one-fifth levy on it.”