Zakah on livestock in which their owner trades
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: I live in the desert and I have a large number of livestock, close to two hundred head. I buy and sell in this livestock. Do I pay zakah on this livestock, even though its number increases and decreases?
Answer:
If this livestock grazes on the grass in the desert for most of the lunar year, then it is subject to the zakah of livestock, the zakah of cattle and sheep. If you feed them from your own supplies for the lunar year or most of it, then there is no zakah of livestock on them. Rather, there is the zakah of trade goods on them if you intend to buy and sell them. In that case, you appraise them at the completion of the lunar year at their market value, and you give one-quarter of a tenth of their value. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, this questioner says: I live in the desert and I have a large number of livestock, close to two hundred head. I buy and sell in this livestock. Do I pay zakah on this livestock, even though its number increases and decreases?
Answer:
If this livestock grazes on the grass in the desert for most of the lunar year, then it is subject to the zakah of livestock, the zakah of cattle and sheep. If you feed them from your own supplies for the lunar year or most of it, then there is no zakah of livestock on them. Rather, there is the zakah of trade goods on them if you intend to buy and sell them. In that case, you appraise them at the completion of the lunar year at their market value, and you give one-quarter of a tenth of their value. Yes.
Source
قناة «مؤسسة الدعوة الخيرية»، فتاوى على الهواء 03-08-1434هـ مع معالي الشيخ الفوزان — youtube.com (50:44)
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