The zakah of mixed sheep, including a trust
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The questioner:
A questioner says: If a person has forty goats, five of which are held in trust, is zakah obligatory on him for them?
The Shaykh:
If the forty are not in his ownership, then no zakah is due on him, because the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah) is not met unless these sheep belonging to others are mixed with a complete mixing. Complete mixing in the grazing, in the overnight stay, and in the shepherd. A complete mixing between them. This is the issue of mixing; the mixing makes the two properties as one, but with conditions. If the conditions of mixing are met in them,
If they graze together for the entire year, spend the night in the same place, and go and come together without being separated for the whole year, this makes them like one piece of wealth. Zakah becomes obligatory on them if they reach forty. Each owner pays the amount corresponding to his share of ownership, according to his share of ownership. If one person owns thirty-five and the other owns five, and the conditions of mixing are met, they pay out a sheep. The owner of the thirty-five owes seven-eighths of a sheep, and the owner of the five owes one-eighth of a sheep. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
As for two partners who share equally, they pay out equally. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
A questioner says: If a person has forty goats, five of which are held in trust, is zakah obligatory on him for them?
The Shaykh:
If the forty are not in his ownership, then no zakah is due on him, because the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah) is not met unless these sheep belonging to others are mixed with a complete mixing. Complete mixing in the grazing, in the overnight stay, and in the shepherd. A complete mixing between them. This is the issue of mixing; the mixing makes the two properties as one, but with conditions. If the conditions of mixing are met in them,
If they graze together for the entire year, spend the night in the same place, and go and come together without being separated for the whole year, this makes them like one piece of wealth. Zakah becomes obligatory on them if they reach forty. Each owner pays the amount corresponding to his share of ownership, according to his share of ownership. If one person owns thirty-five and the other owns five, and the conditions of mixing are met, they pay out a sheep. The owner of the thirty-five owes seven-eighths of a sheep, and the owner of the five owes one-eighth of a sheep. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh.
The Shaykh:
As for two partners who share equally, they pay out equally. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh,
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 32 — archive.org (16:55)
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