Honey

Sayyiduna Abu Sayyarah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): I have bees (honey). He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Pay a tenth ('ushr) on it." I said: O Messenger of Allah, reserve it (its grazing land) as a protected area for me. So he (peace and blessings be upon him) reserved it for me.

It is narrated from Amr bin Shu'ayb that the governor of Ta'if wrote to Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) that the owners of honey (bees) had withheld from us what they used to give to those before us. Sayyiduna Umar wrote to him: If they give you as much as they used to give the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), then reserve (their valleys) as a protected area for them; otherwise do not reserve them for them. The narrator said: Amr bin Shu'ayb held that they used to give one waterskin out of every ten waterskins.

Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) said: On honey there is a tenth ('ushr).

Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Dhubab (may Allah be pleased with him) came to his people and said to them: There is zakah on honey, and there is no good in wealth on which zakah is not paid. The narrator said: His people asked: How much is it? He said: A tenth. Then he collected a tenth from them, took it to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) and told him about it. Sayyiduna Umar took that collected tithe from him and placed it in the zakah of the Muslims (among what had been collected).

Imam al-Zuhri said: On honey there is a tenth ('ushr).