Kitab-ul-Kharaj | کتاب ال خراج | Book of Taxation | Islamic jurisprudence | Abū Yusūf Yaʿqūb Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Kūfī | Urdu Version
Kitāb al-Kharāj (Book of tax assessment) is a great book on fiqh (Islamic law), composed by Abū Yusūf Yaʿqūb Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Kūfī (kicked the bucket 798; 182 A.H.) in line with the Abbasid caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd (763 or 766-809). Abū Yusūf was the most renowned understudy of Abū Ḥanīfa and alongside his famous instructor is viewed as one of the organizers of the Ḥanafī school of law. In the prologue to the book, Abū Yusūf portrays how the caliph requested that he compose a work treating the assortment of al-kharāj (the duty gathered from non-Muslims), al-ʿushūr (a tithe payable by Muslims), al-ṣadaqāt (offerings), and related issues requiring consideration and activity. Hārūn al-Rashīd's communicated plan was to utilize the work to address the abused state of his subjects and to improve their financial prosperity. The work incorporates such part headings as "A depiction of the land [subject to] tithing and al-kharaj, and of Arabs and non-Arabs and worshipers of another ...