Kitab-ul-Kharaj | کتاب ال خراج | Book of Taxation | Islamic jurisprudence | Abū Yusūf Yaʿqūb Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī al-Kūfī | Arabic 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 god and the individuals of the book [i.e., Christians and Jews] and others." The work likewise contains a lot of recorded and geological data on the early hundreds of years of Islam. This can be seen, for instance, in the record of the success of Byzantine and Sassanian lands contained in the part faṣl fī arḍ al-shām wa al-jazīra (Chapter on the place that is known for Syria and Mesopotamia). This original copy duplicate of Kitāb al-Kharāj was finished in Damascus, close to the finish of Rajab, 1144 A.H. (January 1732). The chapter by chapter list, which seems to have been dispersed and reattached to the book with its folios out of arrangement, was clearly expounded on a century later, on the Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 16, 1245 A.H. (June 1830), in Sarajevo (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina). This work has been republished in various releases in current occasions and has been interpreted from the first Arabic into English, Russian, and French.