Mon 13 رمضان 1447 (02 Mar 2026)
[Zakat on Vegetable ]
Mufti:
Alsayyed Muhammad b. Abdallah Awad Al-Muayyady
Fatwa number: 17112
Number of views: 5
[Zakat on Vegetable ]
Fatwa number: 17112
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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 to contravening consensus; for the one who holds the zakat of vegetables to be obligatory maintains that zakat must be taken from the very commodity itself specifically, whereas whoever permits paying the monetary value does not hold that zakat is due in vegetables?
Answer—and Allah is the Granter of success and aid: Your statement, “it comes close to contravening consensus,” and so forth, is not conceded. For the view that permits paying the monetary value in zakat is opposed by the view that disallows paying the monetary value in vegetables.
The proof for what we have said is that both parties agree zakat is obligatory, then they differed as to whether it is obligatory from the very commodity itself specifically, or whether paying the monetary value suffices. This disagreement arose between the two parties without regard to the particular thing to which the zakat is attached.
Moreover, the obligation of zakat in vegetables is, without doubt, a disputed issue; therefore its particulars must also be a matter of dispute, following the root of the issue.
Also, the view that permits paying the monetary value in the categories which are agreed upon entails, a fortiori, permitting that in what they hold carries no zakat at all.
Source : Min Thimār al-ʿIlm wa al-Ḥikmah vol.1
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