What the zakah collector is due as payment

Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "The one who works collecting charity (zakah) rightfully is like the one who fights in the way of Allah, until he returns to his home."

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "The trustworthy treasurer who gives what he has been ordered to give, complete, in full and willingly, until he hands it over to the one he was ordered to give it to, is one of the two who give charity."

Al-Hasan bin Muslim al-Makki said: Sayyiduna Umar al-Faruq (may Allah be pleased with him) sent a man from Banu Thaqif (to collect) charity. Then after that he saw him and said to him: "Do you not see that you too have the like of the reward of one who fights in the way of Allah?"

Al-Hasan said: Whoever is given charity (to distribute) and places it in its proper places, he has a reward equal to that of its owner.