What is your comment on what is reported from Imam Ahmad and al-Shafi'i?
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The Shaykh : Second: There is a statement from Ahmad and al-Shafi'i that if one refuses to pay zakah, the ruler should take it from him by force, punish him, and also take his property violently as a punishment for him.
What is your comment on this statement?
Answer: The statement is that of Imam Ahmad and al-Shafi'i, but with a note on an error made by the writer or the one from whom the writer quoted, where he said: "and also take his property violently." It is not all of his property, but rather, as the hadith explicitly states, half of his property, meaning half of his wealth or a portion of his wealth.
This hadith gives us the following ruling: If one does not offer the zakah of his wealth willingly with a happy heart, the Muslim ruler takes it from him against his will, then he punishes him in his wealth, which was the cause of his failure to fulfill the obligatory right upon him. He takes half of his wealth as a punishment for him. This is what this hadith indicates, and this is what Imam al-Shafi'i and Imam Ahmad said. No one among the scholars of the Muslims says that he is punished and penalized by taking all of his wealth. No, but rather as stated in the hadith:.
What is your comment on this statement?
Answer: The statement is that of Imam Ahmad and al-Shafi'i, but with a note on an error made by the writer or the one from whom the writer quoted, where he said: "and also take his property violently." It is not all of his property, but rather, as the hadith explicitly states, half of his property, meaning half of his wealth or a portion of his wealth.
This hadith gives us the following ruling: If one does not offer the zakah of his wealth willingly with a happy heart, the Muslim ruler takes it from him against his will, then he punishes him in his wealth, which was the cause of his failure to fulfill the obligatory right upon him. He takes half of his wealth as a punishment for him. This is what this hadith indicates, and this is what Imam al-Shafi'i and Imam Ahmad said. No one among the scholars of the Muslims says that he is punished and penalized by taking all of his wealth. No, but rather as stated in the hadith: