Zakah on hidden money that its owner forgot for years
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I hid money in a place and then forgot about it for a number of years, and I found it later by chance. So what is the amount of zakah due on this money, since I do not know the number of years?
Answer:
There is no zakah due for the past years, because it was lost money. You must pay zakah on what you found, covering only one year: the year in which you found it.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. He says: I hid money in a place and then forgot about it for a number of years, and I found it later by chance. So what is the amount of zakah due on this money, since I do not know the number of years?
Answer:
There is no zakah due for the past years, because it was lost money. You must pay zakah on what you found, covering only one year: the year in which you found it.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، فصل في القلب المريض — islamhouse.com (1:00:50)
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