Does paying zakah to a person who owes a blood debt to free himself from retaliation fall under the phrase: “and in the freeing of slaves”?
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to pay zakah to a person who owes a blood debt to free himself from retaliation? Is it permissible to pay zakah to a person who owes a blood debt? Yes. To free himself from retaliation? And does this fall under the saying of the Exalted, “and in the freeing of slaves”?
Answer:
No, it does not fall under “the freeing of slaves.” It falls under “those in debt.” This is a debtor, a debtor for himself. He is ransoming himself from being killed, and he does not have what to pay it off. So this is considered among those in debt. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: Is it permissible to pay zakah to a person who owes a blood debt to free himself from retaliation? Is it permissible to pay zakah to a person who owes a blood debt? Yes. To free himself from retaliation? And does this fall under the saying of the Exalted, “and in the freeing of slaves”?
Answer:
No, it does not fall under “the freeing of slaves.” It falls under “those in debt.” This is a debtor, a debtor for himself. He is ransoming himself from being killed, and he does not have what to pay it off. So this is considered among those in debt. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [4470- 4717] هل دفع الزكاة لمن عليه دم لعتق رقبته من القصاص يدخل في قوله:(وفي الرقاب)؟ -صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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