Select a passage to highlight it. Click or tap a highlight to remove it.
Text and translation
English translation
675. Ibn ‘Umar narrated: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ made Ṣadaqatul-Fitr an obligation upon the male and the female, the free and the bondsmen, as a Ṣā’ of dried dates or a Ṣā’ of barley.” He said: “So the people equated that to half a Ṣā’ of wheat.” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū ‘Eisā said: This Ĥadīth is Ḥasan Ṣaḥīḥ. There are narrations on this topic from Abū Sā‘eed, Ibn ‘Abbās, and the grandfather of Al-Ĥārīth bin ‘Abdur-Raḥmān bin Abī Dhūbāb, and, Tha‘labah bin Abī Ṣu‘air, and ‘Abdullāh bin ‘Amr.
Your commentary saves automatically in this browser, separate from the published commentary. It stays private unless you include it in a shared study file.
Commentary
In the lifetime of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ, the customary food of the people used to be dates and barley, so the people would pay Ṣadaqatul-Fitr as one Ṣā’. Later when the use of wheat became usual food grain, and it was costly compared to the dates, they considered (that) half a Ṣā’ of wheat was equal to one Ṣā’ of dates.
