The Ruling on the Zakah of Tools for Professions and Trades
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The questioner:
May Allah guide you. Regarding workshops for professions, I mean professions and trades, such as blacksmiths and carpenters.
The Shaykh:
They owe zakah if they have wealth. Their tools do not; the tools they use, the iron they work with, the files, the saws, the levers, all the tools, the chairs—there is no zakah on them. Zakah is only calculated on what is for sale.
The questioner:
But may Allah reward you, these professions have become large nowadays. I mean, some people have twenty or thirty workshops, all carpentry and joinery shops, and they have a good reputation.
The Shaykh:
What is for work does not have zakah. Zakah is on what is for production. As for tools and machines, there is no zakah on them. Rather, zakah is on the thing that is sold. There is nothing on the machines. The machines that remain—zakah is not on what is not sold.
May Allah guide you. Regarding workshops for professions, I mean professions and trades, such as blacksmiths and carpenters.
The Shaykh:
They owe zakah if they have wealth. Their tools do not; the tools they use, the iron they work with, the files, the saws, the levers, all the tools, the chairs—there is no zakah on them. Zakah is only calculated on what is for sale.
The questioner:
But may Allah reward you, these professions have become large nowadays. I mean, some people have twenty or thirty workshops, all carpentry and joinery shops, and they have a good reputation.
The Shaykh:
What is for work does not have zakah. Zakah is on what is for production. As for tools and machines, there is no zakah on them. Rather, zakah is on the thing that is sold. There is nothing on the machines. The machines that remain—zakah is not on what is not sold.
Source
أجزاء من موطأ مالك، زكاة العروض — islamhouse.com (7:09)
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