The Ruling on a Slave Seeking to Earn a Living from Zakah
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The questioner:
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: Is the slave who seeks to earn a living for himself a freedman?
The Shaykh:
Mm.
The questioner:
Is the slave who seeks to earn a living to free himself the mukatab (a slave who has contracted to buy his freedom) who is given from zakah?
The Shaykh:
No, the mukatab is the one whose master sold him to himself for a sum of money that he pays, and then he is freed. This is not the mukatab.
The presenter:
What Allah willed. Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh:
This is one who has been partially freed and is trying to agree on the rest. He is not the mukatab; this one is called the mu'abbad (a slave who has been partially freed).
May Allah reward you. Your Eminence, the father, the questioner asks: Is the slave who seeks to earn a living for himself a freedman?
The Shaykh:
Mm.
The questioner:
Is the slave who seeks to earn a living to free himself the mukatab (a slave who has contracted to buy his freedom) who is given from zakah?
The Shaykh:
No, the mukatab is the one whose master sold him to himself for a sum of money that he pays, and then he is freed. This is not the mukatab.
The presenter:
What Allah willed. Peace be upon you.
The Shaykh:
This is one who has been partially freed and is trying to agree on the rest. He is not the mukatab; this one is called the mu'abbad (a slave who has been partially freed).
Source
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