When is zakah obligatory on livestock?
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Question:
The questioner, Abu 'Ammar, says: I buy and sell livestock. When does zakah become due on this livestock, since I have been working with it for five years?
Answer:
If this livestock is from the categories of livestock—camels, cattle, and sheep—and it grazes on wild grass and no feed is spent on it, or if it grazes for most of the lunar year and feed is spent on it for part of the lunar year, then it is grazing livestock. If it reaches the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah) and a lunar year has passed over it, then zakah is obligatory on it, according to the details regarding the zakah of livestock mentioned in the books of Islamic jurisprudence. However, if you feed it for the entire lunar year or most of the lunar year, then there is no zakah on it unless you intend to sell it. In that case, if you sell some of it, you pay zakah on its value. Yes.
The questioner, Abu 'Ammar, says: I buy and sell livestock. When does zakah become due on this livestock, since I have been working with it for five years?
Answer:
If this livestock is from the categories of livestock—camels, cattle, and sheep—and it grazes on wild grass and no feed is spent on it, or if it grazes for most of the lunar year and feed is spent on it for part of the lunar year, then it is grazing livestock. If it reaches the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah) and a lunar year has passed over it, then zakah is obligatory on it, according to the details regarding the zakah of livestock mentioned in the books of Islamic jurisprudence. However, if you feed it for the entire lunar year or most of the lunar year, then there is no zakah on it unless you intend to sell it. In that case, if you sell some of it, you pay zakah on its value. Yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 2161 - متى تجب الزكاة في بهيمة الأنعام؟ - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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