4ـ سَمَاعَةُ قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَكُونُ مَعَهُ الْمَالُ مُضَارَبَةً هَلْ عَلَيْهِ فِي ذَلِكَ الْمَالِ زَكَاةٌ إِذَا كَانَ يَتَّجِرُ بِهِ فَقَالَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَقُولَ لأَصْحَابِ الْمَالِ زَكُّوهُ فَإِنْ قَالُوا إِنَّا نُزَكِّيهِ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ وَإِنْ هُمْ أَمَرُوهُ أَنْ يُزَكِّيَهُ فَلْيَفْعَلْ قُلْتُ أَ رَأَيْتَ لَوْ قَالُوا إِنَّا نُزَكِّيهِ وَالرَّجُلُ يَعْلَمُ أَنَّهُمْ لاَ يُزَكُّونَهُ فَقَالَ إِذَا هُمْ أَقَرُّوا بِأَنَّهُمْ يُزَكُّونَهُ فَلَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ غَيْرُ ذَلِكَ وَإِنْ هُمْ قَالُوا إِنَّا لاَ نُزَكِّيهِ فَلاَ يَنْبَغِي لَهُ أَنْ يَقْبَلَ ذَلِكَ الْمَالَ وَلاَ يَعْمَلَ بِهِ حَتَّى يُزَكُّوهُ. وَفِي رِوَايَةٍ أُخْرَى عَنْهُ إِلاَّ أَنْ تَطِيبَ نَفْسُكَ أَنْ تُزَكِّيَهُ مِنْ رِبْحِكَ قَالَ وَسَأَلْتُهُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ يَرْبَحُ فِي السَّنَةِ خَمْسَمِائَةِ دِرْهَمٍ وَسِتَّمِائَةٍ وَسَبْعَمِائَةٍ هِيَ نَفَقَتُهُ وَأَصْلُ الْمَالِ مُضَارَبَةٌ قَالَ لَيْسَ عَلَيْهِ فِي الرِّبْحِ زَكَاةٌ.
4. Sama‘ah has said the following: “I once asked abu ‘Abd Allah 
, about a man who has a certain asset for profit-sharing purposes. Is such asset subject to Zakat if used in business? He (the Imam) said, ‘He must ask the shareholders to pay Zakat and if they said that they pay Zakat, he then is not required to do anything more than that. If they ask him to pay Zakat then he must pay.’ I then said, ‘What happens if they said that we pay but he knows that they do not pay?’ He (the Imam) said, ‘If they confirm that they pay, he then is not required to do anything more than that, but if they say that they do not pay Zakat, then it is proper for him not to accept the asset to work with it in business.’” In another Hadith from him (the Imam) it is said that if he out of his own choice and from his own share of profit pays Zakat he can do so. I then asked him (the Imam) about a man who gains five hundred dirham profit in one year. Six and seven hundred is its expenses and the capital for profit sharing. He (the Imam) said, ‘Zakat is not due on profits.’”
