Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
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PhD Candidate of Qur’an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;
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Associate Professor, Department of Qur’an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3
Assistant Professor, Department of Qur’an and Hadith Sciences, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;
Abstract
In Shiite and Sunni hadith sources, examples are mentioned that belong to khums (almsgiving), of which is “Rikāz”. The previous researches regarding this issue are mostly jurisprudential and do not have a historical and comparative approach. In Shiite and Sunni sources, narrations of rikāz are divided into two categories: a group of narrations mentions rikāz clearly in sole, in which there is no indication to the concept of rikāz. The other group mentions several narrations from the Prophet (PBUH), some Companions and Followers of in Sunni, as well as the Shiite Imams (AS). They have in-text evidences by which one can get a closer understanding of rikāz. In Shi’a rikāz means mine, everything found valuable, any kind of unused property, and common coins and in Sunni it means mine, old treasures, and dafīna (burials). The main difference between the narrations in the concept of rikāz refers to the lexical interpretation of this word.
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