(34) CHAPTER. The individual property of different people should neither be gathered together nor the joint property should be divided, in assessing the Zakat.
Narrated Anas: Abu Bakr wrote to me what was made compulsory by Allah's Apostle and that was (regarding the payments of Zakat): Neither the property of different people may be taken together nor the joint property may be split for fear of (paying more, or receiving less) Zakat.
