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666. Sa‘eed bin Al-Musayyab narrated from Ṣafwān bin Umayyah who said: “The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ gave to me on the Day of Ḥunain, and he was the most hated creature to me. But he did not stop giving to me until he was the most loved creature to me.” (Ṣaḥīḥ)
Abū ‘Eisā said: Al-Ḥasan bin ‘Ali narrated this to me, or what resembles it in the course of a discussion. He said: There is something on this topic from Abū Sa‘eed. Abū ‘Eisā said: The Hadīth of Ṣafwān was reported by Ma‘mar and others from Az-Zuhri, from Sa‘eed bin Al-Musayyab “that Ṣafwān bin Umayyah said: ‘The
Messenger of Allāh ﷺ gave to me...'[1] So it is as if this narration is more correct and that it is more likely that it is (from) "Sa'eed bin Al-Musayyab, that Ṣafwān bin Umayyah". The people of knowledge differ over giving to those whose hearts are inclined (towards Islām). Most of the people of knowledge held the view that they are not to be given to, and they say that they were only those people during the time of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ whom he would encourage to accept Islām until they accepted it. And they did not think that such people should be given from the Zakāt today. This is the saying of Sufyān Ath-Thawrī, the people of Al-Kūfah and others. And it is the view of Aḥmad and Iṣhāq. Some of them said: If there is someone today like those people, and the Imām sees that they are inclined toward Islām, then giving to them is allowed. This is the view of Ash-Shāfi'ī.
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According to Imām Al-Qurtubī and Qādi Thanā-Ullāh Panipati, those whose hearts were to be attracted having been inclined towards Islam were people of two types: a disbeliever or a financially weak Muslim. Those who were given, in their state of disbelief, for the purpose of attracting their hearts towards Islam, then they were given from the spoils of war, but the weak Muslims were given financial support from the wealth of Zakāt due to their poverty and need for the purpose of winning their hearts, these people may be given in these days too.
