Zakah money is not to be distributed except to those who are eligible for it

Question : The Shaykh, may Allah bless you. It has been mentioned previously that if a person has money and does not know its owner or the owner's name, he should give it in charity. And we said, we said: O our Shaykh, we have a person who was given money and then became wealthy, and his debt was settled. We said it is to be distributed to those eligible for zakah. We asked: Is this issue always restricted?

Answer : No, no, because this was given as zakah. So it is not to be distributed except to those who are eligible for it. As for other funds, they are to be spent in any religious benefit.