Buried treasure found by a group of people: is zakah due on it?

Amr bin Shu'ayb narrates from his father, from his grandfather, that a man said to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): O Messenger of Allah! What is the ruling on something we find on an unfrequented road or in an uninhabited place (a village and the like)? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In it, and in buried treasure (rikaz), there is one-fifth (khums)."

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: In buried treasure there is one-fifth (khums).

Something similar is reported from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him).

Al-Sha'bi narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In buried treasure there is one-fifth (khums)."

Something similar is reported from Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him), from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).

It is reported from Ubaydah about Ibrahim: he said: I brought him zakah and he accepted it. He said: And he informed me that some of the people of Badr used to accept it.

Imam al-Sha'bi narrates that an Arab youth found some money worth ten thousand. The youth brought the money to Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), and he took two thousand from it as the one-fifth (khums) and gave the remaining eight thousand back to him.

Imam al-Sha'bi narrates that a man found fifteen hundred (dirhams) in a ruined place. He brought them to Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: Pay its one-fifth, and three-fifths of it are yours; and we shall soon make the remaining fifth lawful for you.

Umar al-Dabbi said: Some people of a tribe at our place, Sabur, were digging the ground when suddenly they came upon a treasure. Their overseer was Muhammad bin Jabir al-Rasibi. He wrote to Adi about it, and Adi wrote to Umar bin Abdul Aziz. Umar bin Abdul Aziz wrote: Collect the one-fifth from it, write a quittance for them, and leave all the rest to them, as it is theirs. (When this letter arrived,) he gave the wealth back to them and collected the one-fifth from it.

Husayn narrates from a man who was present at the Battle of Qadisiyyah, who said: There was a man among us who was bathing; when the water, falling on the ground, dug a hole in it, a brick of gold appeared. That man brought it to Sayyiduna Sa'd bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) and informed him about it. He said: Include it in the spoils of the Muslims.

Huzayl narrates that a man came to Sayyiduna Abdullah (bin Mas'ud) (may Allah be pleased with him) and said: I have found some hundreds of dirhams. Sayyiduna Abdullah said to him: I do not think that what you found is wealth of the Muslims; rather, I think it is ancient buried wealth (rikaz). So pay one-fifth of it into the public treasury (bayt al-mal), and all the rest of the wealth is yours.

Al-Hasan said: Rikaz is ancient treasure, and one-fifth is due on it.

Al-Hasan said: If treasure is found in the land of the enemy, one-fifth is due on it; and if it is found in the land of the Arabs, zakah is due on it.

Ibrahim bin al-Muntashir narrates from his father that a man said to Sayyidah Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her): I found a treasure and handed it over to the ruler. She said: "Dust in your mouth!" or she said a word similar to it. The narrator said: The doubt is mine.

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In rikaz (too) there is one-fifth."

Kathir bin Abdullah al-Muzani narrates from his father, from his grandfather, that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "In rikaz there is one-fifth."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the ruling that one-fifth is due on rikaz.

Ikrimah was asked: A man found wealth stored away in the ground? He said: Pay its one-fifth.