Did the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) specify the nisab for gold in zakah?
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The questioner : May Allah reward you. The questioner says: The saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) to 'Ali ibn Abi Talib: Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 8:437 or as he said it. Ibn 'Abd al-Barr says: "It is not established regarding the determination of the nisab for gold anything except through the route of al-Hasan ibn 'Umarah, and they agreed that he is abandoned"?
The Shaykh : Yes, it can be said that this is correct: that nothing is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the estimation of the nisab for gold. However, what is mentioned is an approximation, because the blood money was twelve thousand dirhams and one thousand mithqals of gold, and this is a comparison. The Hanbali jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) adopted this estimation, so less than twenty mithqals of gold has no zakah in it. And what is twenty mithqals or more has zakah in it, which is eighty-five grams. Yes.
In every twenty dinars
في كل عشرين دينارThe Shaykh : Yes, it can be said that this is correct: that nothing is established from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding the estimation of the nisab for gold. However, what is mentioned is an approximation, because the blood money was twelve thousand dirhams and one thousand mithqals of gold, and this is a comparison. The Hanbali jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) adopted this estimation, so less than twenty mithqals of gold has no zakah in it. And what is twenty mithqals or more has zakah in it, which is eighty-five grams. Yes.