مصنف ابن ابي شيبه
Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah
كتاب الزكاةBook of Zakat
في المسكين يؤمر له بالشيء فلا (يوجد)This chapter is about a poor person who was ordered to be given something but it was not found
Hadith 10571
١٠٥٧١ - حدثنا عبد السلام عن ليث عن طاوس في الرجل يخرج بالصدقة إلى (السائل) (١) (فيفوت منه) (٢) فلا يجده، قال: يصرفها إلى غيره.
A person asked Hazrat Taawoos that if someone takes something out to give to a beggar, but the beggar disappears and he cannot find him later, then what should he do? He replied: He should give it to someone else.
