Zakah on a debt receivable collected after several years
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I was absent from my job for several years, then I returned to settle my rights, and a sum of two hundred thousand was due to me, and he says he took it. His question is: Is zakah due on it for the past years?
Answer:
Before you received it, no zakah was due on it, because you did not know whether you would get it or not. But once you received it, zakah became obligatory on it. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. The questioner says: I was absent from my job for several years, then I returned to settle my rights, and a sum of two hundred thousand was due to me, and he says he took it. His question is: Is zakah due on it for the past years?
Answer:
Before you received it, no zakah was due on it, because you did not know whether you would get it or not. But once you received it, zakah became obligatory on it. Yes.
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من كتاب الزكاة : باب الحث عليها والتشديد في منعها — islamhouse.com (1:09:44)
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.