Fatwas Archive

Question: A man had one hundred sheep, then died before a zakat year was completed, leaving two sons. How should they act with respect to zakat when the year falls due?

The questioner added: Is zakat paid before deducting the selling expenses, or after?

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?