Paying Zakah in Dates and Selling Them to the Assessor
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah keep you safe. A man paid his zakah in dates, so the assessor came and said to the owner of the date palm: "Buy the dates from me and give me money in exchange for them." What should the owner of the date palm do? Is it permissible for him to give him dirhams in place of the dates?
Answer:
And he paid the zakah. He says: He paid the zakah, so once he has paid it, the matter is finished. The matter is finished. Also, the assessor, who is the *kharis*, has no duty other than to estimate the dates and leave. So he asks for the zakah; someone else asks for it. His duty is to come out and give you the amount of the dates. He says, "These are your dates, and the zakah is so much and so much," and he leaves. Someone else asks for the zakah, either the poor person himself, or the collector appointed by the one in authority.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah keep you safe. A man paid his zakah in dates, so the assessor came and said to the owner of the date palm: "Buy the dates from me and give me money in exchange for them." What should the owner of the date palm do? Is it permissible for him to give him dirhams in place of the dates?
Answer:
And he paid the zakah. He says: He paid the zakah, so once he has paid it, the matter is finished. The matter is finished. Also, the assessor, who is the *kharis*, has no duty other than to estimate the dates and leave. So he asks for the zakah; someone else asks for it. His duty is to come out and give you the amount of the dates. He says, "These are your dates, and the zakah is so much and so much," and he leaves. Someone else asks for the zakah, either the poor person himself, or the collector appointed by the one in authority.
Source
شرح زاد المستقنع [52] — alfawzan.live (1:24:33)
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