Yahya related to me from Malik from Thawr ibn Zayd ad-Dili from a
son of Abdullah ibn Sufyan ath-Thaqafi from his grandfather Sufyan ibn
Abdullah that Umar ibn al-Khattab once sent him to collect zakat. He
used to include sakhlas (when assessing zakat), and they said, "Do you
include sakhlas even though you do not take them (as payment)?" He
returned to Umar ibn al-Khattab and mentioned that to him and Umar
said, "Yes, you include a sakhla which the shepherd is carrying, but
you do not take it. Neither do you take an akula, or a rubba, or a
makhid, or male sheep and goats in their second and third years, and
this is a just compromise between the young of sheep and goats and the
best of them."
Malik said, "A sakhla is a newborn lamb or
kid. A rubba is a mother that is looking after her offspring, a makhid
is a pregnant ewe or goat, and an akula is a sheep or goat that is
being fattened for meat."
Malik said, about a man who had
sheep and goats on which he did not have to pay any zakat, but which
increased by birth to a zakatable amount on the day before the zakat
collector came to them, "If the number of sheep and goats along with
their (newborn) offspring reaches a zakatable amount then the man has
to pay zakat on them. That is because the offspring of the sheep are
part of the flock itself. It is not the same situation as when some
one acquires sheep by buying them, or is given them, or inherits them.
Rather, it is like when merchandise whose value does not come to a
zakatable amount is sold, and with the profit that accrues it then
comes to a zakatable amount. The owner must then pay zakat on both his
profit and his original capital, taken together. If his profit had
been a chance acquisition or an inheritance he would not have had to
pay zakat on it until one year had elapsed over it from the day he had
acquired it or inherited it."
Malik said, "The young of sheep
and goats are part of the flock, in the same way that profit from
wealth is part of that wealth. There is, however, one difference, in
that when a man has a zakatable amount of gold and silver, and then
acquires an additional amount of wealth, he leaves aside the wealth he
has acquired and does not pay zakat on it when he pays the zakat on
his original wealth but waits until a year has elapsed over what he
has acquired from the day he acquired it. Whereas a man who has a
zakatable amount of sheep and goats, or cattle, or camels, and then
acquires another camel, cow, sheep or goat, pays zakat on it at the
same time that he pays the zakat on the others of its kind, if he
already has a zakatable amount of livestock of that particular kind."
Malik said, "This is the best of what I have heard about
this. "
Muwatta Malik Book 17, Hadith 28
Whenever Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) intended to invoke evil upon somebody or invoke good upon somebody, he
used to invoke (Allah after bowing (in the prayer). Sometimes after saying, "Allah hears him who
sends his praises to Him, all praise is for You, O our Lord," he would say, "O Allah. Save Al-Walid
bin Al-Walid and Salama bin Hisham, and `Aiyash bin Abu Rabi`a. O Allah! Inflict Your Severe
Torture on Mudar (tribe) and strike them with (famine) years like the years of Joseph." The Prophet (ﷺ)
used to say in a loud voice, and he also used to say in some of his Fajr prayers, "O Allah! Curse soand-
so and so-and-so." naming some of the Arab tribes till Allah revealed:--"Not for you (O
Muhammad) (but for Allah) is the decision." (3.128)
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 65, Hadith 82