It was narrated from Al-Hasan that: Ibn Abbas gave a Khutbah in Al-Basrah and said: "Pay the zakah of your fasting." The people started looking at one another. He said: "Whoever there is here from the people of Al-Madinah, get up and teach your brothers, for they do not know that the Messenger of Allah (صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم) enjoined sadaqat al-fitr on the young and the old, the free and the slave, the male and the female; half a sa of wheat or a sa of dried dates or barley."