Delaying the zakah of money paid into a profit-sharing partnership beyond the time it becomes obligatory
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The questioner:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: A person owns the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), and the hawl (lunar year of possession) for this nisab completes at the end of Jumada al-Akhirah every year. He gave this amount to a person to trade with it and appointed him to pay the zakah. However, the appointed person pays the zakah on his own trade in Ramadan every year, and he pays this person’s share with him in Ramadan. What should the owner of the money do regarding the difference, which is three months, given that he has paid the zakah for him for two years?
The Shaykh:
You do not delay the zakah beyond the time it becomes obligatory. Paying the zakah immediately, meaning at the time it becomes obligatory, is required, and it must not be held back from its time. What is permissible is advancing it before its time; advancing it is permissible, but delaying it is not permissible except in the case of an excuse, such as if he does not have money at the present time, in which case the zakah remains in his liability until he finds the money and pays it out, or if there is a time of greater need, where the poor are in greater need, in which case he delays it for the sake of the severity of the need, and there is no harm in that. However, delaying it because he gave it to someone, and this person does not pay zakah except in Ramadan, is not an excuse. The owner of the money pays the zakah on his money when the hawl is completed, even if it is in the hands of a person with whom he has a profit-sharing partnership. The other person pays the zakah on his own money and does not pay the zakah on the money of his partner in the profit-sharing partnership. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
He does not need to appoint an agent. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner says: A person owns the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah), and the hawl (lunar year of possession) for this nisab completes at the end of Jumada al-Akhirah every year. He gave this amount to a person to trade with it and appointed him to pay the zakah. However, the appointed person pays the zakah on his own trade in Ramadan every year, and he pays this person’s share with him in Ramadan. What should the owner of the money do regarding the difference, which is three months, given that he has paid the zakah for him for two years?
The Shaykh:
You do not delay the zakah beyond the time it becomes obligatory. Paying the zakah immediately, meaning at the time it becomes obligatory, is required, and it must not be held back from its time. What is permissible is advancing it before its time; advancing it is permissible, but delaying it is not permissible except in the case of an excuse, such as if he does not have money at the present time, in which case the zakah remains in his liability until he finds the money and pays it out, or if there is a time of greater need, where the poor are in greater need, in which case he delays it for the sake of the severity of the need, and there is no harm in that. However, delaying it because he gave it to someone, and this person does not pay zakah except in Ramadan, is not an excuse. The owner of the money pays the zakah on his money when the hawl is completed, even if it is in the hands of a person with whom he has a profit-sharing partnership. The other person pays the zakah on his own money and does not pay the zakah on the money of his partner in the profit-sharing partnership. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The Shaykh:
He does not need to appoint an agent. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you
Source
75-اللقاء الأسبوعي مع الشيخ صالح الفوزان - 31 — archive.org (35:41)
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