حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مَسْلَمَةَ حَدَّثَنَا دَاوُدُ يَعْنِي ابْنَ قَيْسٍ عَنْ عِيَاضِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيِّ قَالَ کُنَّا نُخْرِجُ إِذْ کَانَ فِينَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّی اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ زَکَاةَ الْفِطْرِ عَنْ کُلِّ صَغِيرٍ وَکَبِيرٍ حُرٍّ أَوْ مَمْلُوکٍ صَاعًا مِنْ طَعَامٍ أَوْ صَاعًا مِنْ أَقِطٍ أَوْ صَاعًا مِنْ شَعِيرٍ أَوْ صَاعًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ أَوْ صَاعًا مِنْ زَبِيبٍ فَلَمْ نَزَلْ نُخْرِجُهُ حَتَّی قَدِمَ مُعَاوِيَةُ حَاجًّا أَوْ مُعْتَمِرًا فَکَلَّمَ النَّاسَ عَلَی الْمِنْبَرِ فَکَانَ فِيمَا کَلَّمَ بِهِ النَّاسَ أَنْ قَالَ إِنِّي أَرَی أَنَّ مُدَّيْنِ مِنْ سَمْرَائِ الشَّامِ تَعْدِلُ صَاعًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ فَأَخَذَ النَّاسُ بِذَلِکَ فَقَالَ أَبُو سَعِيدٍ فَأَمَّا أَنَا فَلَا أَزَالُ أُخْرِجُهُ أَبَدًا مَا عِشْتُ قَالَ أَبُو دَاوُد رَوَاهُ ابْنُ عُلَيَّةَ وَعَبْدَةُ وَغَيْرِهِمَا عَنْ ابْنِ إِسْحَقَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ حَکِيمِ بْنِ حِزَامٍ عَنْ عِيَاضٍ عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ بِمَعْنَاهُ وَذَکَرَ رَجُلٌ وَاحِدٌ فِيهِ عَنْ ابْنِ عُلَيَّةَ أَوْ صَاعًا مِنْ حِنْطَةٍ وَلَيْسَ بِمَحْفُوظٍ
سنن ابودوٗد · Hadith 1616
Abu Saeed Al-khudri said: When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ lived among us, we use to bring forth zakat, on closing the fast of Ramadan one sa’ of grain or of cheese, or of barley, or of dried dates, or of raisens, payable by every young and old freeman and slave. We continued to pay this till mu-awayah came to perform Haj or Umra and he spoke to the people on the pulpit. What he said to the people was: I think that Mudds of the wheat of syrria is equivalent to one sa’ of dried dates. So the people adopted it. Abu Saeed said: But I continued to pay one sa’ of wheat as long as I lived on. Abu Dawud said: this tradition has also been transmitted by Abu Saeed through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. A man has narrated in this version from Ibn-Ulayyah one sa’ of wheat. But this version is not guarded.
Translated by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan · Reviewed by Islamic University of Madinah · Published March 2020