Zakah on student salaries that do not remain in their possession for a full lunar year

Question : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, we are university students and we receive salaries, which come to us after a month or two, but we do not have enough money left over to reach the nisab (minimum threshold for zakah) for a full lunar year. How do we pay its zakah?

Answer : There is no zakah on this. As long as a person does not have money remaining in his possession until the completion of the hawl (a lunar year of possession), he owes no zakah.