Rafi‘ b. Khadij reported God’s messenger as saying,
“The official who collects sadaqa in a just manner is like him who fights in God’s path till he returns home."
Bashir b. al-Khasasiya said they told how the collectors of sadaqa went over the score and asked whether they might conceal their property to the extent to which they went over the score, but told them that they must not.
‘Amr b. Shu'aib on his father’s authority said his grandfather reported the Prophet as saying,
“There is to be no collecting of sadaqa from a distance, nor must people who own property remove it far away,* for their sadaqat are to be received only in their dwellings.”
Abu Dawud transmitted it.
* The point is that the collector of zakat must not make people bring their animals a long distance to him, and they must not remove their animals to a distance when he is coming to collect zakat.
Jarir b. ‘Abdallah told of some people, meaning nomadic Arabs, who came to God’s messenger and said, “Collectors of sadaqa come to us and act unjustly.” He told them to please the collectors who came to them, and when they asked if they must do so even if they wronged them, he replied,
“Please those who collect sadaqa from you, even if you are wronged.”
