654 — Abu ‘Ammar narrated to us, saying: Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah narrated to us, from Dawud, from al-Sha‘bi, from Jarir, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, something similar.

The hadith of Dawud, from al-Sha‘bi, is more sound than the hadith of Mujalid. Some scholars of knowledge have declared Mujalid weak, and he makes many errors.

21 — Chapter: What has come regarding that the charity (zakat) is taken from the wealthy and given back to the poor

655 — ‘Ali ibn Sa‘id al-Kindi narrated to us, saying: Hafs ibn Ghiyath narrated to us, from Ash‘ath, from ‘Awn ibn Abi Juḥayfah, from his father, who said: The collector of charity (musaddiq) of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, came to us. He took the charity from our wealthy and distributed it among our poor. I was a young orphan boy, and he gave me from it a young she-camel (qalūṣ).

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= "Musnad Ahmad" (19187).
(1) Its chain of transmission is sound; see what precedes it.
(2) Its chain of transmission is weak due to the weakness of Ash‘ath ibn Sawwar.
It was also recorded by Ibn Abi Shaybah 3/204–205, Ibn Khuzaymah (2362) and (2379), al-Tabarani in "al-Kabir" 22/(275), (276), and (277), and al-Daraquṭni 2/136, via multiple paths from Ash‘ath ibn Sawwar, with this chain of transmission.
Taking the charity from the wealthy of a land and returning it to its poor is established from the hadith of Ibn ‘Abbas in al-Bukhari (1496), in which he said: "And inform them that God has obligated upon them a charity taken from their wealthy and given back to their poor."
And from the hadith of ‘Imran ibn Ḥusayn in Abu Dawud (1625) and Ibn Majah (1811), the wording of which is: that Ziyad — or one of the governors — sent ‘Imran ibn Ḥusayn to collect the charity, and when he =