The Alms(Zakat) expenditures

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

Question: A man had an obligatory zakāh amount mixed with a voluntary charity, and he is the agent responsible for distributing all of it. The obligatory portion is no longer distinguishable from the voluntary. What should he do?

Question: Some tribal shaykhs may possess power and authority, and they take the zakāh of people’s wealth by force and threats. It appears that they do not place it in its proper channels; rather, we strongly suspect they consume it....