What is the ruling on paying zakah a little before the completion of the lunar year, without a pressing need?
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the ruling on paying zakah a little before the completion of the lunar year, without a pressing need?
The Shaykh:
It is permissible to pay zakah before the completion of the lunar year; there is nothing wrong with that. It is permissible to expedite it. This is called expediting. It is permissible; there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner:
And likewise, may Allah preserve you, he asks and says: What is the ruling on delaying it a little, without a pressing need?
The Shaykh:
One does not delay it except to the extent that one is able to pay it, or one delays it for the need of a poor person who is waiting for it, or to deliver it to him. There is nothing wrong with that. If the delay is for a pressing need, there is nothing wrong with it.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, he says: What is the ruling on paying zakah a little before the completion of the lunar year, without a pressing need?
The Shaykh:
It is permissible to pay zakah before the completion of the lunar year; there is nothing wrong with that. It is permissible to expedite it. This is called expediting. It is permissible; there is nothing wrong with it.
The questioner:
And likewise, may Allah preserve you, he asks and says: What is the ruling on delaying it a little, without a pressing need?
The Shaykh:
One does not delay it except to the extent that one is able to pay it, or one delays it for the need of a poor person who is waiting for it, or to deliver it to him. There is nothing wrong with that. If the delay is for a pressing need, there is nothing wrong with it.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [976 -3022] ما حكم إخراج الزكاة قبل حلول الحول بقليل لغير حاجة؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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