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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Explanation of the author's statement: "And if one takes from his property or from unowned land one hundred and sixty Iraqi pounds of honey, then a tenth is due on it."

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The Shaykh : Then the author said, and this is the beginning of today's lesson, "And if one takes from his property or from unowned land one hundred". One hundred is another object of the verb. "If one takes one hundred and sixty Iraqi pounds, then a tenth is due on it."
The author (may Allah have mercy on him) informed us of the obligation of zakah on honey. We are discussing this issue. It is well known that honey is not something that comes out of the earth; rather, it comes from the bellies of bees, as Allah the Exalted said:
There emerges from their bellies a drink, varying in colors, in which there is healing for people يخرج من بطونها شراب مختلف ألوانه فيه شفاء للناس
[An-Nahl 16:69]
. It is not something that comes out of the earth, but it resembles what comes out of the earth in that it is harvested at a specific time, just as fruits are harvested. 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) imposed on it what resembles zakah, which is a tenth. The scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) differed on whether there is zakah on honey, or whether what 'Umar imposed on it is not zakah but rather an independent legal reasoning for a specific situation, because the statement of Allah Mighty and Majestic does not apply to it:
O you who have believed, spend from the good things which you have earned and from that which We have produced for you from the earth يا أيها الذين ءامنوا أنفقوا من طيبات ما كسبتم ومما أخرجنا لكم من الأرض
[Al-Baqarah 2:267]
. There is disagreement in this issue. The author of "al-Furu'", Ibn Muflih (may Allah have mercy on him), one of the students of Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, and one of the most knowledgeable people in jurisprudence according to Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah, to the extent that Ibn al-Qayyim would refer to him, meaning to Ibn Muflih, asking him what the Shaykh said in jurisprudential issues, leans (may Allah have mercy on him) toward the view that there is no zakah on honey, because there is nothing in the Qur'an or the Sunnah indicating that. The original presumption is the innocence of the conscience until evidence establishes the obligation. According to this view, there is no need to know what the nisab of honey is. As for the view that it is obligatory, which is the well-known position in the school of thought, they say that its nisab is one hundred and sixty Iraqi pounds, which is approximately sixty-two kilograms in our current weight standards. If one takes this amount, a tenth is obligatory on it because it resembles fruit that is watered without expense, meaning there is no expense in it other than taking and harvesting it, just as fruit that is watered without expense has no expense other than taking it. Therefore, a tenth is obligatory on it, and it is distributed to the recipients of zakah.
It was also said that the nisab is six hundred Iraqi pounds. He said in "al-Mughni": "It is possible that its nisab is one thousand Iraqi pounds." From one hundred and sixty Iraqi pounds to one thousand pounds, this is because there is no Sunnah transmitted from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) regarding it, so the scholars differed in estimating the nisab on which zakah becomes obligatory. In any case, whoever pays it out is on the best side. If it was obligatory, he has fulfilled what was obligatory and cleared his conscience. If it was not obligatory, it is voluntary charity. And whoever does not pay it out, we cannot declare him sinful or say that he left a pillar of Islam in this type of wealth, because this requires evidence that the soul is reassured by. Yes.
He says: "Then a tenth is due on it." And his statement: "From his property or from unowned land." The difference between what is from his property and what is from unowned land: "From his property" means in his land; the bees built their hives on trees in his land, and he took the honey from them. Or "unowned land" in a land that is not owned by anyone, such as taking it from the tops of mountains and the bottoms of valleys, and the like. Yes.
Source alathar.net

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