Section : Zakah on Wealth Extracted from the Sea. Most scholars stipulate that zakah is not payable on anything extracted from the sea, such as pearls, corals, chrysalite, cachalot ambergris, fish, and so on. There is, however, a report from…
Section : Acquiring Property Through Profit or Increase. When a person acquires property and it stays in his possession for a year and constitutes a nisab, and he has no other property or he has similar property which has not…
Section : Zakah ie the Responsibility of the Owner, Not the Holdings Themselves. The Hanafiyyah, the Malikiyyah, and a report from ash-Shaf’i and Ahmad propose that it is the property which owes zakah. The second opinion attributed to ash-Shaf’i and…
Section : Loss of the Holdings after Zakah is Due. Once zakah becomes payable on the holdings either because of the completion of a year or harvest time, and the holdings or part of them are lost, the owner still…
Section : The Loss of Zakah After it is Set Aside. When a person sets aside zakah for distribution among the poor and all of it or some of it is lost, he must repay it because it is still…
Section : Delaying of Zakah (Payment) Does Not Void It. Ash-Shaf’i holds that anyone who does not pay zakah for a number of years must pay it all together. Whether or not he is aware of its obligation or he…
Section : The Payment of the Value Instead of Paying the Item Itself. It is not permissible to pay the value instead of the item itself, except in the case of non-existence, for zakah is an act of worship which…
Section : Zakah on Shared Property. When holdings are shared between two or more partners, zakah is not obligatory on either one until all of them attain a nisab individually. This is the opinion of most scholars. This does not…
Section : Evading the Payment of Zakah. The opinion of Malik, al-Auza’i, Ishaq, Ahmad, and Abu ‘Ubaid is that whoever possesses a nisab of any kind of property and then sells it before the completion of the year hawl, or…