Imam -asws : yes, but tell me how are you going to distribute it?
Imam -asws : yes, but tell me how are you going to distribute it? Ummro: Zakat will be divided into eight portions and eight deserving persons will take one portion each. Imam -asws : How about if one group consists of ten thousand people and one group will comprise of one or two or three people. Do you mean to give one portion to one person and divide one portion among ten thousands? Ummro: Yes. Imam -asws : Will you divide equally between the city and village people? Ummro: Yes.
Imam -asws : You have gone against all traditions of the Prophet -saww . Prophet -saww of Islam used to distribute the Zakat/Alms of people of desert among deserving ones from desert and distribute Zakat of city people among the poor from cities. However, Prophet -saww did not, distribute (Zakat/Alms) equally but as per the number of deserving ones and also considering their requirements.
If you are not fully convinced, what I have told to you, you can verify from the scholars of Medina, who will never disagree with what I have had told you. Indeed, this is how the Prophet Mohammed -saww used to distribute (Zakat). Imam -asws then went closer to Ummro and said: O Ummro Fear Allah -azwj ! And O people, you too Fear Allah -azwj !
Indeed, my father -asws had narrated to me -asws , no doubt my father -asws was the most knowledgeable person of Holy Quran and Ahadith, among all the inhabitant of the Earth, after the Prophet -saww , a hadith of the Prophet -saww : Whoever invites public toward him, by shear force of sword (revolt against government), whereas an even more learned person exists among Muslims, he is the worst one in deriving people toward disbelief.