From Islamic history
Governance and the bayt al-Maal
12 AH · 633 AD · 1436 years ago · The Rightly Guided Caliphs
A portrait of Abu Bakr ﵁ as khalifah: the bait al-mal at as-Sunh without a guard, the allowance of half a sheep per day, milking goats for the widows, and the words: 'We took for ourselves neither a dinar nor a dirham.'
