Acts of Worship

Question: Is it permissible to give a poor person the monetary value of the zakat for cucumbers, qāt, pomegranates, tomatoes, and the like?

Question: Does one sin by delaying zakat beyond its time? And if a trade commodity whose zakat was delayed fluctuates in price, on which price is the zakat calculated?

Question: If a man has a large amount of zakat, is he required to distribute it all at the end of the zakat year? Is it permissible for him to disburse it gradually throughout the year, since many poor people...

Question: It often happens that a man sells from his orchard—qāt, pomegranates, or apples—for a fixed sum. The buyer takes the produce and sells it, then comes to the seller to pay him the remainder of the price—since at the...

Question: If a man purchases a qāt plantation, irrigates it and tends it, then harvests the qāt, is zakat obligatory upon him or not?

Question: Is zakat obligatory on the grain (ḥabb), the qaṣab, the sharīyāf, and the ḥamāṭ?

Question: A man sold a plot of fodder maize that had not been harvested. What is required of him?

Question: May a man shift to the madhhab of Zayd—peace be upon him—holding that zakat is not obligatory in vegetables? And is the ruling the same if the man is a trustee (waṣī) or the guardian of a minor?

Question: Is it permissible to pay the monetary value (instead of the produce itself) for the zakat of vegetables? If you say it is permissible, what is your response to one who says: asserting the permissibility of that comes close...

Question: A man has shops that he rents out, but their annual rent does not reach the amount of zakat, which is one quarter of one-tenth (2.5%) of the value of the shops. What is the ruling in that?