A salary of one thousand riyals that sometimes accumulates and sometimes does not; the year ends and it is dispersed. What is the advice regarding the zakah of the salary?

Question:
He also asks about the zakah of the salary. Shaykh Salih says to me: My salary is one thousand riyals; sometimes it accumulates and sometimes it does not. The year ends and it is gone. How do you advise me regarding the matter of the zakah and the salary? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
Zakah is only due on money when the lunar year (hawl) has passed over it. If a full year has elapsed, or if it is in a place where you keep it, zakah is not due on it unless you spend it before the completion of the year. It is not due on it; no zakah is due on it because the conditions for obligation have not been met, because the condition for obligation has not been realized. There is no hadith. Praise be to Allah.
But here is an issue that is frequently asked about: the employee who saves a portion of each of his salaries, spends from it, puts it in, and so on, and does not know what has completed a lunar year and what has not. In this case, he designates a month of the year as the time for calculating his zakah, corresponding to the same month in the following year. For example, if it is the month of Ramadan, he pays the zakah on what has accumulated with him. What has completed a lunar year, he pays it upon the completion of the year; what has not completed a year, he has paid it early. Paying early is always permissible, especially in times of need, and people have no choice but this. The employee who has a monthly income, saves from it, and takes from it, and so on, has no choice but to designate a specific month of the year in which he pays the zakah on what has accumulated with him in that month, up to the same month of the following year.