Is there zakah in the property of orphans?
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Question : Honorable Shaykh, the questioner says: A widow receives assistance from some charitable organizations, and she has orphans. She has accumulated about one hundred thousand riyals from this assistance. About one hundred thousand riyals, and the lunar year has passed over it. She is preserving it and does not pay zakah from it, saying that she spends it on the orphans. Is that permissible for her?
Answer : Yes. The property of orphans requires zakah, just as the property of others does, because zakah is an obligatory right in wealth, as Allah Blessed and Exalted is He said:[Al-Ma'arij 70:24-25] And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq 2:194 So zakah is due in wealth. If a woman has the property of orphans that she collects for them, zakah is obligatory in it. However, before this, the woman must establish her guardianship over these orphans through the court, meaning she must go to the court to prove that she is the guardian of these orphans. Yes.
Answer : Yes. The property of orphans requires zakah, just as the property of others does, because zakah is an obligatory right in wealth, as Allah Blessed and Exalted is He said:
(24) And those within whose wealth is a known right (25) For the petitioner and the deprived -
وَالَّذِينَ فِي أَمْوَالِهِمْ حَقٌّ مَّعْلُومٌ لِّلسَّائِلِ وَالْمَحْرُومِ(peace and blessings be upon him)
صلى الله عليه وسلمTo Mu'adh ibn Jabal when he was sent to the people of Yemen: "Inform them that Allah has made obligatory upon them a charity in their wealth."
لمعاذ بن جبل حين بعثه إلى أهل اليمن أعلمهم أن الله افترض عليهم صدقة في أموالهم.
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قناة «فضيلة الشيخ محمد بن صالح العثيمين»، لقاء[66 من 145] هل في أموال الأيتام زكاة؟ الشيخ ابن عثيمين - مشروع كبار العلماء — youtube.com
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