Those who said: no zakah is due on ambergris

Udhaynah said: I heard Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) saying: Ambergris is not buried treasure (rikaz); ambergris is only something that the sea casts up on the shore, and nothing is due on it.

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: There is no zakah on ambergris. Ambergris is what the sea casts up on the shore.

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: There is no zakah on ambergris. It is rather a gain (ghanimah) for whoever obtains it.

Ma'mar said: Urwah bin Muhammad wrote to Umar bin Abd al-Aziz about a piece of ambergris weighing seven hundred ratl. He said: A fifth (khums) is to be taken from it.

It is narrated from Layth that Umar bin Abd al-Aziz used to take a fifth (khums) from ambergris.

Al-Hasan used to say: On ambergris there is a fifth (khums), and he used to say the same regarding pearls.

Ibn Tawus narrates from his father that Ibrahim bin Sa'd asked Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) about ambergris, and he said: If anything is due on it, then it is a fifth (khums).

Ibn Tawus narrates from his father that Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) was asked about ambergris, and he said: If anything is due on it, then it is a fifth (khums).

Sufyan said: There is no zakah on ambergris, nor on honey, nor on the awqas (the numbers lying between two thresholds).