The Ruling on the Zakah of Collected Zakah Funds
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Question:
The questioner says: If a group of people gather and collect zakah funds to buy a house for poor orphans, what is the ruling on that? And is zakah due on this money if a lunar year passes over it?
Answer:
This is among the deeds of righteousness and good, may Allah reward them with good. If a lunar year passes over this collected money, then zakah is obligatory on it, because it has not been spent on what it was intended for. Therefore, it has not exited the ownership of its owners until it is spent on what they intended for it. Each person pays zakah on what he gave; each person pays zakah on the money he gave. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
The questioner says: If a group of people gather and collect zakah funds to buy a house for poor orphans, what is the ruling on that? And is zakah due on this money if a lunar year passes over it?
Answer:
This is among the deeds of righteousness and good, may Allah reward them with good. If a lunar year passes over this collected money, then zakah is obligatory on it, because it has not been spent on what it was intended for. Therefore, it has not exited the ownership of its owners until it is spent on what they intended for it. Each person pays zakah on what he gave; each person pays zakah on the money he gave. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah reward you.
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/259 — archive.org (9:50)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.