Zakah on honey traded for profit
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Question:
The questioner says: I have a mobile beehive operation, and I trade in honey from one region to another. Is there zakah on it?
Answer:
Yes. If you obtain money from selling the honey, and you obtain money and a lunar year passes over it, then zakah becomes obligatory on it. As for the honey itself, there is scholarly disagreement regarding it. The school of thought holds that there is no zakah on it; the stronger opinion, meaning the stronger opinion in the school, is that there is no zakah on it. And if you pay zakah on it as a precaution, you pay one-tenth, because one-tenth is close to a mudd (a quarter of a sa'), as in the hadith You pay zakah by giving out one-tenth. Yes.
The questioner says: I have a mobile beehive operation, and I trade in honey from one region to another. Is there zakah on it?
Answer:
Yes. If you obtain money from selling the honey, and you obtain money and a lunar year passes over it, then zakah becomes obligatory on it. As for the honey itself, there is scholarly disagreement regarding it. The school of thought holds that there is no zakah on it; the stronger opinion, meaning the stronger opinion in the school, is that there is no zakah on it. And if you pay zakah on it as a precaution, you pay one-tenth, because one-tenth is close to a mudd (a quarter of a sa'), as in the hadith
Or the athar (report from a Companion or successor), so if you want to
أو الأثر، فإذا أردت أن
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 02/299 — archive.org (6:52)
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