[byactingonitourselves].”TheProphetadvisedthemtobelieveinOne
God,establishprayer,payzakāt,fastinthemonthofRamadhān,and“to
paykhums (one-fifth)ofwhatever yougain.”[38]Thecircumstances of
the Bani `Abdu 'l-Qays —they were weak and small in number, and
werethuspreventedfromtravellingsafelytoMedina—leavesnoroom
forinterpretingtheapplicationofkhumsintheabovehadithonspoilsof
war exclusively.
* * *This lesson is entirely based on
Khums: An Islamic Tax(Third Edition, 1992) of Sayyid M. Rizvi