No zakah on forgotten money

Question : The questioner says: A person placed his money, which had reached the nisab, in a certain place and then forgot where that place was. Is zakah obligatory on him?

Answer : Zakah is not obligatory on him as long as he is forgetting it. Do not be surprised; this happens. For example, a woman has jewelry and wants to travel, but she does not want to carry it with her, and she has no one she trusts, so she buried it in the ground and forgot where she buried it. Does this happen or not? It happens. So there is no zakah on it for the duration of her forgetting it. And when she remembers and finds it, she pays zakah on the time that has passed.