SECTION ON ZAKĀT · 3 – WHAT KENZ IS AND THE ZAKĀT OF ORNAMENTS
1563 – It is narrated from ʿAmr ibn Shuʿayb, from his father, from his grandfather, who said: A woman came to the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) with her daughter. The girl had two thick gold bracelets on her hand. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said to the woman: “Do you give the zakāt (obligatory alms) of these bracelets?” The woman replied, “No, I do not.” The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “Would you like Allah to make you wear two bracelets of fire instead of these on the Day of Resurrection?” The woman immediately took off the two bracelets, handed them to the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), and said, “These are for Allah and His Messenger’s pleasure.” [438]
EXPLANATION
Miske: It means bracelet and also refers to the ring that Arab women wear above their ankles. This noble hadith indicates that zakāt is obligatory on ornaments. This is also the view of Imām Aʿzam (Abū Ḥanīfa). According to Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Mālik ibn Anas, and one opinion of al-Shāfiʿī, there is no zakāt on ornaments.
1564 – It is narrated from Umm Salama (may Allah be pleased with her): I was wearing a ring made of gold. I asked the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), “Is this kenz (hoarded wealth)?” The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) replied, “If wealth reaches the amount liable for zakāt and its zakāt is paid, it is not kenz.”
1565 – It is narrated from ʿAbdullāh ibn Shaddād ibn al-Hād (may Allah be pleased with him): I came to the family of the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him), to ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her). ʿĀʾisha (may Allah be pleased with her) related: One day the Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) came to me. He saw large rings made of silver in my hand and asked, “O ʿĀʾisha, what are these?” I replied, “O Messenger of Allah, I made them to adorn myself for you.” The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Do you give their zakāt?” I replied, “No,” or I said something similar to what Allah willed. The Messenger of God (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “It is enough for you, as a cause for entering the Fire, that you do not pay their due.”
EXPLANATION
Fetehat: It means large rings. The niṣāb (minimum amount liable for zakāt) for gold is twenty mithqāls. If a person has ten mithqāls of gold and also has ornaments amounting to ten mithqāls, since their total reaches the niṣāb, zakāt becomes obligatory. The niṣāb for silver is two hundred dirhams. If one has ornaments of this amount in silver, or if their other silver together with the ornaments reaches two hundred dirhams, zakāt becomes obligatory.
1566 – ʿUmar ibn Yaʿlā (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated this hadith in the same way as the hadith about the ring. Sufyān was asked, “How does (ʿĀʾisha) give the zakāt of the ring?” He replied, “She adds its zakāt to the other zakātable assets.”