حَدَّثَنَا
سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ الْهَاشِمِيُّ , حَدَّثَنَا
أَبُو بَكْرٍ يَعْنِي ابْنَ عَيَّاشٍ , حَدَّثَنَا
عَاصِمٌ , عَنْ
أَبِي وَائِلٍ , عَنْ
مُعَاذٍ , قَالَ : بَعَثَنِي النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ
" وَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ آخُذَ مِنْ كُلِّ حَالِمٍ دِينَارًا أَوْ عِدْلَهُ مَعَافِرَ , وَأَمَرَنِي أَنْ آخُذَ مِنْ كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ بَقَرَةً مُسِنَّةً , وَمِنْ كُلِّ ثَلَاثِينَ بَقَرَةً تَبِيعًا حَوْلِيًّا , وَأَمَرَنِي فِيمَا سَقَتْ السَّمَاءُ الْعُشْرَ , وَمَا سُقِيَ بِالدَّوَالِي نِصْفَ الْعُشْرِ " .
It is narrated from Hazrat Mu'adh (may Allah be pleased with him) that when the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) sent me to Yemen, he instructed me to collect one dinar from every adult or its equivalent in Yemeni cloth called "Ma'afir," to take as zakat one year-old cow from every thirty cows and a two year-old cow from every forty cows, and also instructed me to take 'ushr (one-tenth) from rain-fed lands and half 'ushr (one-twentieth) from irrigated lands.