Where does a person pay his zakah?

The questioner : May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. The questioner asks: If zakah becomes obligatory on a person while he is in Makkah, but he is from another city, is it obligatory for him to pay it in Makkah, or in his city where it became obligatory?

The Shaykh : Or where?

The questioner : Or in his city where he is from.

The Shaykh : It did not catch up with him.

The questioner : Not by Makkah.

The Shaykh : Okay, and work, or in a city. In any case, I do not know what I mean by zakah; is it the zakah of wealth or the alms given at the end of Ramadan?
If it is the alms given at the end of Ramadan, it is paid in the place where the time for its payment arrives and you are present. If you are in Makkah, you pay it in Makkah; if you are in your city, you pay it in your city; and if you are in another city, you pay it in that other city. So if a man is here in Makkah when the time for paying the alms given at the end of Ramadan arrives, he pays it in Makkah. And if he has a family in his hometown, where do they pay their zakah? In their hometown. So the man pays his zakah in Makkah if he is in Makkah when the time for its payment arrives, and his family pays it in their place. This is if he meant the alms given at the end of Ramadan. But if he meant the zakah of wealth, the zakah of wealth is paid in the country of the wealth. If his wealth is in his country, he pays the zakah in his country.