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Hadith #
160
Book
Mīzān al-Ḥikma
Volume
1
Part
ALMS-TAX (zakat)
Chapter
The One Who Refuses to Pay the Alms-Tax
Source
Muḥammad Muḥammadī Rayshahrī
Publisher
ICAS Press
۞
Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, 'He who refuses to pay [as meagre an amount as] a sixteen of a dirham in alms-tax may as well die a Jew or a Christian.
الإمامُ الصّادقُ (عَلَيهِ الّسَلامُ): مَن مَنَعَ قِيراطاً مِنَ الزَّكاةِ فَلْيَمُتْ إن شاءَ يَهُوديّاً وإن شاءَ نَصرانيّاً.

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