Zakah on the offspring of sheep that are kept for trade
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Question:
The questioner says: If a man owns a flock of sheep that has reached the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), and they graze in the pastures, and these sheep have young offspring that are kept inside an enclosure, and he is the one who feeds them and spends on them throughout the year, and then he sells them and trades in them, how is the zakah calculated on these sheep' offspring?
Answer:
He pays zakah on them as zakah on trade goods, zakah on trade. If he sells some of them and a lunar year passes over their value, he pays zakah on them. If he sells some of them and a lunar year passes over their value while they are with him, he pays zakah on them. However, as long as they are fed throughout the year, they are not grazing sheep, and there is no zakah on them in themselves; rather, the zakah is on their values. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: If a man owns a flock of sheep that has reached the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), and they graze in the pastures, and these sheep have young offspring that are kept inside an enclosure, and he is the one who feeds them and spends on them throughout the year, and then he sells them and trades in them, how is the zakah calculated on these sheep' offspring?
Answer:
He pays zakah on them as zakah on trade goods, zakah on trade. If he sells some of them and a lunar year passes over their value, he pays zakah on them. If he sells some of them and a lunar year passes over their value while they are with him, he pays zakah on them. However, as long as they are fed throughout the year, they are not grazing sheep, and there is no zakah on them in themselves; rather, the zakah is on their values. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، باب ما جاء في حماية النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم حمى التوحيد وسده طرق الشرك — youtube.com (51:17)
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