Zakah on sheep that graze for part of the year
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Question:
A questioner says: A person has six hundred head of sheep, and they graze in the pastures for only some of the months of the year. He sells about fifty head per year. Is there zakah on these sheep?
Answer:
If he keeps them for trade, buying, and selling, then there is zakah on them, the zakah of trade. He appraises them at the end of the lunar year and pays zakah on the whole amount based on their value. However, if he wants them for personal use, not for trade, and they graze in the open for most of the lunar year, then these are subject to the permanent zakah on grazing livestock. But if he feeds them, wanting them for personal use, and feeds them for half the lunar year or more, then there is no grazing livestock zakah on them, nor trade zakah, because he did not intend them for trade, and they are not grazing livestock either, since he feeds them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
A questioner says: A person has six hundred head of sheep, and they graze in the pastures for only some of the months of the year. He sells about fifty head per year. Is there zakah on these sheep?
Answer:
If he keeps them for trade, buying, and selling, then there is zakah on them, the zakah of trade. He appraises them at the end of the lunar year and pays zakah on the whole amount based on their value. However, if he wants them for personal use, not for trade, and they graze in the open for most of the lunar year, then these are subject to the permanent zakah on grazing livestock. But if he feeds them, wanting them for personal use, and feeds them for half the lunar year or more, then there is no grazing livestock zakah on them, nor trade zakah, because he did not intend them for trade, and they are not grazing livestock either, since he feeds them.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
أخصر المختصرات في الفقه الحنبلي [31] — alfawzan.live (52:50)
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