Zakah on Fed and Unfed Livestock

Question:
Please, my brother Sa'd from al-Qasir. Yes, go ahead. Hello. Yes, Sa'd, peace be upon you. Peace be upon you and Allah's mercy. Go ahead. If you please, I mean, my zakah is, I mean, for more than a year and so on. What is the zakah on it? It is a beast of burden, I mean, for more than a year, and you are, I mean, feeding it. Does it have zakah or not? And the second question? Let the Shaykh answer, go ahead, Shaykh Salih. Yes, you sell it by the sa' or so. When is the zakah due on livestock, Honorable Shaykh, and if it is being fed?

Answer:
The zakah is obligatory on livestock at the completion of the lunar year. Yes. If a lunar year has passed while it is in his possession, it has reached the nisab, and it is grazing, meaning it grazes for the lunar year or most of the lunar year on permissible grass and plants from the earth, and it is not fed except a little, then the zakah is obligatory on it. However, if he feeds it for most of the lunar year, there is no zakah on it, unless he intends it for selling and buying, intending it for trade. In that case, it is trade goods, and the zakah is obligatory on its value when the lunar year is completed. Yes.