The Place of Paying the Zakah of Wealth
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Question:
May Allah reward you. The listener Ahmad Ali from Yemen says: I am a resident of the Kingdom, so what is the ruling regarding the zakah on my wealth? Is it obligatory for me to pay this zakah here in the Kingdom? Or is there no harm in sending it to my relatives and the poor in my country?
Answer:
The default ruling for zakah is that it is paid in the country where the wealth is located; the zakah of wealth is paid in the place where that wealth is.Sahih Muslim 19a. If a need arises to transfer it to another country where he has relatives, or where there are people in greater need, there is no harm in transferring it. Yes.
May Allah reward you. The listener Ahmad Ali from Yemen says: I am a resident of the Kingdom, so what is the ruling regarding the zakah on my wealth? Is it obligatory for me to pay this zakah here in the Kingdom? Or is there no harm in sending it to my relatives and the poor in my country?
Answer:
The default ruling for zakah is that it is paid in the country where the wealth is located; the zakah of wealth is paid in the place where that wealth is.
that Allah has made Zakat obligatory for them that it should be collected from the rich and distributed among the poor
أن الله افترض عليهم صدقة تؤخذ من أغنيائهم فترد في فقرائهم
Source
نور على الدرب - الفوزان - 03/273 — archive.org (14:08)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.