Zakah on the price of a car sold on installment
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The questioner:
Regarding me, O Shaykh, may Allah reward you with good. I have a question, may Allah preserve him. The zakah on a car sold for a debt on a monthly installment, O Shaykh. Ah, now I sold a car on a monthly installment. And this installment, ah, sometimes I take it and eat it, and sometimes I spend it on something. Sometimes I collect it, save it, and buy another car with it. The question is: how do I pay zakah on this money, and it has not completed a lunar year with me? The installment that I received.
The Shaykh:
My brother, if the lunar year has passed on the value of the car, and you have received it, or it is a debt in the buyer's possession, you must pay zakah on this amount if it reaches the nisab. As for what you received, and the lunar year has not completed on it, and you spent it, and nothing remains of it, there is no zakah on it because the condition for the obligation of zakah is not present, which is the completion of the lunar year. Yes.
The questioner:
Okay, O Shaykh, may Allah lengthen your life. Also, the car, for example, until a lunar year or an amount, for example, O Shaykh, meaning a colleague lent it to me, or so, meaning I do not know if the lunar year has passed on it. For example, he said, "After two months or after six months, I will return the amount to you," and I do not know if the lunar year has passed on it or not. Do you understand? And how is the zakah on it, meaning?
The Shaykh:
It is not obligatory; it is not the obligation of zakah on the return, the obligation of zakah is on the contract. If the contract is made and the price of the car becomes a debt in his possession, in the buyer's possession, and the lunar year has passed on it, twelve months from the contract, zakah becomes obligatory on it. Yes.
The questioner:
The full amount, O Shaykh, which is the value of the car with its interest.
The Shaykh:
Yes, the value of the car and its interest, because the interest is attached to the principal. Yes.
The questioner:
You have done well, O Shaykh, may Allah bless you, may Allah reward you.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Regarding me, O Shaykh, may Allah reward you with good. I have a question, may Allah preserve him. The zakah on a car sold for a debt on a monthly installment, O Shaykh. Ah, now I sold a car on a monthly installment. And this installment, ah, sometimes I take it and eat it, and sometimes I spend it on something. Sometimes I collect it, save it, and buy another car with it. The question is: how do I pay zakah on this money, and it has not completed a lunar year with me? The installment that I received.
The Shaykh:
My brother, if the lunar year has passed on the value of the car, and you have received it, or it is a debt in the buyer's possession, you must pay zakah on this amount if it reaches the nisab. As for what you received, and the lunar year has not completed on it, and you spent it, and nothing remains of it, there is no zakah on it because the condition for the obligation of zakah is not present, which is the completion of the lunar year. Yes.
The questioner:
Okay, O Shaykh, may Allah lengthen your life. Also, the car, for example, until a lunar year or an amount, for example, O Shaykh, meaning a colleague lent it to me, or so, meaning I do not know if the lunar year has passed on it. For example, he said, "After two months or after six months, I will return the amount to you," and I do not know if the lunar year has passed on it or not. Do you understand? And how is the zakah on it, meaning?
The Shaykh:
It is not obligatory; it is not the obligation of zakah on the return, the obligation of zakah is on the contract. If the contract is made and the price of the car becomes a debt in his possession, in the buyer's possession, and the lunar year has passed on it, twelve months from the contract, zakah becomes obligatory on it. Yes.
The questioner:
The full amount, O Shaykh, which is the value of the car with its interest.
The Shaykh:
Yes, the value of the car and its interest, because the interest is attached to the principal. Yes.
The questioner:
You have done well, O Shaykh, may Allah bless you, may Allah reward you.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (076) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1436-01-19] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (44:48)
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