The zakah on the price of a house before it is received
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Question:
This is Yasser ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ruqayy from al-Qasim. He says: I bought a house from a person for a sum of five hundred thousand riyals. When I wanted to hand over the amount to him, he told me to wait until the sale procedures were completed. About a month remained before this amount completed its lunar year of possession. On whom does the zakah of this amount fall if its lunar year is completed?
Answer:
Its zakah is upon you; because you have not transferred it out of your ownership, and the owner of the house has not received it, so it remains in your ownership until the lunar year is completed, and then you pay its zakah. Yes.
This is Yasser ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ruqayy from al-Qasim. He says: I bought a house from a person for a sum of five hundred thousand riyals. When I wanted to hand over the amount to him, he told me to wait until the sale procedures were completed. About a month remained before this amount completed its lunar year of possession. On whom does the zakah of this amount fall if its lunar year is completed?
Answer:
Its zakah is upon you; because you have not transferred it out of your ownership, and the owner of the house has not received it, so it remains in your ownership until the lunar year is completed, and then you pay its zakah. Yes.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/240 — archive.org (14:51)
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