Taking from Zakah for a Blood Money Debt
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a man has a blood money debt, is it permissible for him to take from the zakah?
Answer:
Blood money is of two types: blood money for intentional aggression and blood money for accidental killing. As for blood money for an accident, if a man owes it and is unable to pay it off, there is no harm in his taking from the category of debtors, for debtors have a share in the zakah. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: If a man has a blood money debt, is it permissible for him to take from the zakah?
Answer:
Blood money is of two types: blood money for intentional aggression and blood money for accidental killing. As for blood money for an accident, if a man owes it and is unable to pay it off, there is no harm in his taking from the category of debtors, for debtors have a share in the zakah. Yes.
Source
شرح إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان لابن القيم، تتمة فصل وقد أخبر - صلى لله عليه وسلم - أن طائفة من أمته تستحل الربا باسم البيع — islamhouse.com (1:10:34)
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