7 - Chapter on the One Who Collects the Zakat

2936 - Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Asbatī narrated to us, Abd al-Rahīm ibn Sulaymān narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn Ishāq, from Āsim ibn Umar ibn Qatāda, from Mahmūd ibn Labīd, from Rāfi' ibn Khadīj, who said: I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, say: "The one who works on the zakat with truthfulness is like the one who fights in the path of Allah until he returns to his home."(1)

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And Ibn Kathīr said in 3/200: It is not authentic, and a group of ḥuffāẓ have explicitly stated that it is fabricated, even though it is in "Sunan Abī Dāwūd," among them our teacher, the ḥāfiẓ al-Mizzī. He said: Ibn Jarīr undertook to reject this ḥadīth and refuted it with the most complete refutation, saying: There is no one among the Companions known by the name al-Sijill, and the scribes of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, are well known, and none of them is named al-Sijill. He said: He spoke the truth, may Allah have mercy on him, in that, and it is among the strongest evidence for the oddity (nakāra) of this ḥadīth. The correct view, from Ibn Abbās, is that al-sijill means the scroll (ṣaḥīfa).

Al-Nasā'ī also narrated it in "al-Kubrā" (11272) from Qutayba ibn Sa'īd, with this chain. Al-Nasā'ī also narrated it (11273) from Qutayba ibn Sa'īd, from Nūḥ, from Amr ibn Mālik al-Nakarī, from Abū al-Jawzā', with it, thus omitting Yazīd ibn Ka'b from its chain.

In this chapter there is also something not to be rejoiced in, from Ibn Umar, as found with Ibn Mardawayh and Ibn Manda, as in "al-Iṣāba" of the ḥāfiẓ Ibn Hajar 3/34, and al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī in his "Tārīkh" 8/175. And the ḥāfiẓ al-Dhahabī said in "al-Mīzān" in the biography of Ḥamdān ibn Sa'īd: A false report (khabar kadhib).

(1) Its chain is ḥasan (good). Muhammad ibn Ishāq — and he is Ibn Yasār al-Muṭṭalibī — is ṣadūq (truthful), ḥasan al-ḥadīth (good in ḥadīth), and he explicitly stated his hearing (samā') in Aḥmad (17285), thus removing any suspicion of tadlīs (concealment).

Ibn Mājah also narrated it (1809), and al-Tirmidhī (651) via the route of Muhammad ibn Ishāq, and al-Tirmidhī (651) via the route of Yazīd ibn Iyāḍ, both from Āsim ibn Umar ibn Qatāda, with it.

Al-Tirmidhī said: A ḥasan ḥadīth. We say: The reliance in it is on Ibn Ishāq; as for Yazīd ibn Iyāḍ, he is accused (muttaham).

It is in "Musnad Aḥmad" (15826) and (17285), and Ibn Khuzayma authenticated it (2334), and al-Ḥākim 1/406, and al-Dhahabī remained silent about it.