The Time When Zakah Becomes Obligatory on Livestock and Money

Question:
Please, my brother Yusuf, from Al-Khabar. May you be safe, 'Abd al-Karim. And upon you be peace. May Allah preserve you. Is it permissible to prepare for the time of zakah when the time for reaching the nisab arrives? If it is done. Yes, Shaykh, he says: Regarding zakah, does it have a specific time that determines it, or is it open-ended?

Answer:
The time for zakah on livestock, such as grazing camels, cattle, and sheep, is the completion of a full lunar year over them, provided they have reached the nisab and a year has passed over them; then zakah becomes obligatory on them. The same applies to money and to goods, which are trade commodities; it is a condition for the obligation of zakah that a full lunar year passes over them. As for the produce of the earth, such as grains and fruits, their zakah becomes obligatory upon their harvest and when one is able to take possession of them. Allah the Exalted said: This matter of livestock has workers, it has workers sent by the state to collect the zakah, so the owner of the livestock must hand over the zakah to the workers when they come. Yes.

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