What is the obligation of the creditor regarding zakah?

Question:
This is a person who says he is a creditor, a person who is owed money by others.

Answer:
And the time for giving it has arrived, meaning, if his intention is that he has debts owed to him by people, and a year has passed over them, he pays zakah on them because they are his wealth. A Muslim pays zakah on wealth that has been possessed for a lunar year, whether it is in his hand or in the debts of people.
Unless it is in the debts of people whose return he does not know, whether it will come back to him or not, because they are delaying or bankrupt, and he does not know. In this case, it is not obligatory for him, because it is like lost wealth, where he does not know if it will return or not. So when he receives it, the lunar year begins. If a lunar year passes after he receives it, he pays zakah on it. But if the debt is owed by people of means who will give it to him when he asks them, it is obligatory for him to pay zakah on it, exactly like wealth in his hand, if a lunar year has passed over it.