Giving a Woman Her Zakah to Her Son or Her Husband

Question:
Her final question in this message is: Is it permissible for a woman to give her zakah to her son to help him buy a car, given that he is in dire need of it? If the answer is no, how do we reconcile this with the fact that we have heard a fatwa permitting a woman to give her zakah to her husband to pay off his debt, even though he is religiously obligated to provide for her?

Answer:
This is a matter. The one you asked about is another questioner who asked: Does she give her son from the zakah? This is not permissible. The zakah of a parent is not lawful for his child, nor the reverse, and the zakah of a child is not lawful for his parent. Zakah is not permissible between the two vertical lines of kinship, because he is obligated to provide for him if he needs it, and he does not make the zakah a shield for his wealth and what is obligatory upon him. As for a wife giving her zakah to her husband, this is a matter in which there is disagreement among the scholars. Some hold that it is permissible based on the hadith of Zaynab, the wife of 'Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, while others prohibit it for the reason mentioned by the questioner, that it returns to her in the form of financial maintenance. So the matter of a wife giving her zakah to her husband is a matter in which there is disagreement. Yes.