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Money book

كتاب الأموال

Author: أبو عُبيد القاسم بن سلاّم بن عبد الله الهروي البغدادي (المتوفى: 224هـ) (d. 224)

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كتاب الأموال لأبي عبيد القاسم بن سلام هو مؤلف في الفقه الإسلامي يتناول الأحكام المتعلقة بالأموال العامة في الدولة الإسلامية، كالفيء والجزية والخراج والصدقة. يبحث الكتاب في حقوق الإمام والرعية، وطرق جباية الأموال وتوزيعها، وأحكام فتوح الأراضي صلحًا وعنوة، والشروط المفروضة على أهل الذمة. يعتمد المؤلف على الأحاديث النبوية والآثار في عرض هذه المسائل المالية والإدارية.

Translation

The Book of Money by Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam is a book on Islamic jurisprudence that deals with the rulings related to public funds in the Islamic state, such as fay’, jizyah, tax, and charity. The book examines the rights of the imam and the subjects, the methods of collecting and distributing money, the provisions for conquests of lands by peace and force, and the conditions imposed on the people of Dhimmah. The author relies on Prophetic hadiths and hadiths to present these financial and administrative issues.

Topics covered

Money for Al-Qasim bin Salam
Chapter: The right of the imam over the subjects, and the right of the subjects over the imam
The book of Fay, its faces, and its ways
Chapter on the jizyah, and the Sunnah in accepting it, and it is from spoils
Chapter on taking tribute from the Arabs of the People of the Book
Chapter on taking tribute from the Magi
Chapter: on whom the jizya is required and on whom it is waived, whether men or women
Chapter on the imposition of the jizyah, its amount, the livelihood of Muslims, and their hospitality
Chapter on the tax on any of the people of the Dhimmah who converted to Islam, or who died while it was payable
Chapter on taking tribute from wine and pork
The Book of the Conquests of the Two Lands, its rules and regulations
Chapter: What is permissible for Muslims from the wealth of the people of the Dhimmah over and above what they have agreed upon
Chapter on reconciliation and truce between Muslims and polytheists for a period
Chapter: People of peace and covenant break, when will their blood be permissible?
This is the letter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to the people of Hijra
This is the letter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to the people of Ayla
This is the letter of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, to Khuza’a
This is Khalid bin Al-Walid’s peace letter to the people of Damascus
This is the letter of the peace treaty of Ayyad bin Ghanam with the people of the Peninsula
This is a letter by Habib bin Maslama to the people of Tbilisi from Armenia
A book about the exits of fayyi and the places to which it is taken and placed
Chapter on imposing gifts from spoils, and who should start with them?
Chapter on enforcing giving to the people of the present, and giving them preference over the people of the desert
Chapter on the obligation of the slaves from fayyah
Chapter on imposing fetishes on the offspring and providing them with sustenance

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