Female camels
only
lawful in the
payment o f
Zakdt.
Camels o f all
defcriptions
included.
One yearling
due upon
thirty kine,
&c.
and n in ety -fiv ethe Zakat is three H i Mas and a two-year old colt;
and upon any number from one hundred and ninety-Jix to two hundred,
the Zakdt is four Hikkas: and in this manner is the Zakdt to be calculated
upon every fifty camels exceeding one hundred and fifty.—
This arrangement is according to our doctors. Shafei alledges that
when the number exceeds the hundred and twenty by one only, the
Zakdt is three two year old colts ; and if it amount to one hundred and
thirty, it is one Hikka and two two year old colts; after which the Z a kdt
is calculated at a two year old colt upon every forty camels, and a
Hikka upon every fifty ; the prophet, upon a particular occafion, having
written to one of his Aumeels to this effect, without making any mention
of a goat upon the odd five, and fo forth. But our doctors, in
fupport of their opinion, as above, cite the letters of the prophet to
Omar, where he fays, “ upon every five camels the Zakdt is one goat.”
And it is to be obferved that, in the payment of the Zakdt of camels,
females alone are lawful, becaufe males are held to be lawful only in
regard to their value * , fuch being recorded both in the facred writings
and in the traditions.
C amels of every defeription, whether Badlrian, Arabian, or
others, are all included in thefe rules of Zakdt, as the term camel
\Shutr\ is common to all.
S E C T . II.
O f the Z a k a t o f Horned Cattle.
No Zakdt is due upon fewer than thirty kine ; and upon thirty Vine,
which feed on paftyre for the greater part of the year, there is due at
the end of the year a Zakdt o f one T’ubbee, that is, a follower, or
yearling calf, male or female ; and upon fo rty kine there is due one
* That is to fay, the price of a male is held to be lawful in Zakat, but not the animal.
Mifna,
Mifna, or calf o f two years, male or female, on the authority o f the
prophet; and where the number exceeds fo rty , the Zakdt (according
to H an e e f a ) is to be calculated, agreeably to this rule, fo far as fix ty ,
that is to fay, if there be one animal more than the fo rty , there is an
additional Zakdt of the fortieth part of a M ifna; and if two, of the
twentieth part of a Mifna ; and fo on to the number fx t y .— What is
here advanced accords, with tht Mabfoot; and the ground upon which
it proceeds is that, in the facred writings, the Zakdt is particularly
fpecified for any number between thirty and fo rty , and alio for thole
o f fx t y and above, but none for the numbers between forty and fx ty .
Hafan ilates the dodtrine of Haneefa to be, in this cafe, that, on the
numbers from forty to forty-nine, no excefs Zakdt whatever is due ;
and that upon fifty kine the Zakdt is one Mifna, and the fourth o f a
Mifna, or the third of a T’ubbee ; becaufe upon every Akid, or drove
of even number, in a Nifdb o f cattle, fuch as thirty, fo rty , or fifty
head, Zakdt is due, but not upon any intermediate number.— The
two difciples lay that no Zakdt whatever is due upon any odd number
between forty and fifty ; and there is alio one tradition of the opinion
of Haneefa to this effect : and the reafon they alledge is, that the
prophet faid to Maaz, “ Take not any thing from an Owkds o f kine
and he explained an Owkds to mean any number between forty and
fixty. And upon fix ty kine, the Zakdt is two yearling calves, male
or female : and upon feventy, one Mifna and one T’ubbee: and upon
eighty, two Mifnas: and upon ninety, three T’ubbees : and upon one
hundred, two Tubbees and one M ifna: and thus on every ten head a
Mifna and a T’ubbee alternately, the prophet having ordained that the
Zakdt upon thirty kine ihould be a T’ubbee ; and that upon forty a
Mifna:— thus, upon one hundred and ten kine, the Zakdt is two Mifnas
and one T’ubbee ; and upon one hundred and twenty, four T’ubbees.
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