The ruling on paying off a father's debt from zakah
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Question:
The questioner says: My father borrowed twenty-five thousand riyals from a person. Is it permissible for me to pay off my father's debt in full from the zakah allocated for the indebted?
Answer:
It is not permissible for you to give zakah to your father, nor to pay off his debt from the zakah. You must pay it off from your own wealth, not from the zakah. As for the zakah, it is for the eligible recipients other than parents and children, who are your direct line of descent. The zakah of one of them is not lawful for the other; because it is obligatory for the son to spend on his father from his own wealth, and he does not spend on him from his zakah.
The questioner says: My father borrowed twenty-five thousand riyals from a person. Is it permissible for me to pay off my father's debt in full from the zakah allocated for the indebted?
Answer:
It is not permissible for you to give zakah to your father, nor to pay off his debt from the zakah. You must pay it off from your own wealth, not from the zakah. As for the zakah, it is for the eligible recipients other than parents and children, who are your direct line of descent. The zakah of one of them is not lawful for the other; because it is obligatory for the son to spend on his father from his own wealth, and he does not spend on him from his zakah.
Source
مجالس رمضان 1431هـ - 07 — alfawzan.live (25:47)
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