Arabic (Original)
أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللهِ الْحَافِظُ ثنا أَبُو الْعَبَّاسِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ ثنا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الْجَبَّارِ ثنا أَبُو مُعَاوِيَةَ ثنا الْأَعْمَشُ عَنْ أَبِي وَائِلٍ عَنْ مَسْرُوقٍ عَنْ مُعَاذِ بْنِ جَبَلٍ ؓ أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللهِ ﷺ بَعَثَهُ إِلَى الْيَمَنِ وَأَمَرَهُ أَنْ يَأْخُذَ مِنَ الْبَقَرِ مِنْ كُلِّ ثَلَاثِينَ تَبِيعًا وَمِنْ كُلِّ أَرْبَعِينَ بَقَرَةً مُسِنَّةً وَمِنْ كُلِّ حَالِمٍ دِينَارًا أَوْ عِدْلَهُ ثَوْبَ مَعَافِرَ
English Translation
Abu Abdullah al-Hafiz informed us > Abu al-Abbas Muhammad ibn Ya'qub > Ahmad ibn Abd al-Jabbar > Abu Mu'awiyah > al-A'mash > Abu Wa'il > Masruq > Mu'adh ibn Jabal (may Allah be pleased with him), that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) sent him to Yemen and commanded him to take from cattle — from every thirty, a one-year-old calf; from every forty, a mature cow; and from every mature person, a dinar or its equivalent in Ma'afiri cloth.