He bought camels more than a year ago to benefit from drinking their milk and selling the males, and he has a shepherd who tends them for a monthly salary and spends on their monthly feed, and they have
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The questioner : The questioner says that he bought camels more than a year ago to benefit from drinking their milk and selling the males, and he has a shepherd who tends them for a monthly wage and also spends on their monthly feed, and they have exceeded the nisab. Is zakah obligatory on them or not?
The Shaykh : What appears from the owner of the camels is that what appears is that he intended them for keeping, not for trade. Because the one who buys camels sometimes buys them for keeping, staying, and breeding, and sometimes buys them for trade, selling these and buying those. As for the one who keeps them for trade, their ruling is the ruling of trade goods, meaning they are valued at the completion of the lunar year by what they are worth in dirhams, and their zakah is paid out of the dirhams, even if it is only one camel. But if a person keeps them for breeding and milking, there is no zakah on them unless they are sa'imah, and sa'imah is that which
The Shaykh : What appears from the owner of the camels is that what appears is that he intended them for keeping, not for trade. Because the one who buys camels sometimes buys them for keeping, staying, and breeding, and sometimes buys them for trade, selling these and buying those. As for the one who keeps them for trade, their ruling is the ruling of trade goods, meaning they are valued at the completion of the lunar year by what they are worth in dirhams, and their zakah is paid out of the dirhams, even if it is only one camel. But if a person keeps them for breeding and milking, there is no zakah on them unless they are sa'imah, and sa'imah is that which