Zakah is obligatory in grazing livestock
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Zakah is obligatory in grazing
Livestock
Question: There is a project for raising dairy cows that eat the feed prepared for them and do not graze on their own in the open. Is zakah due on them? Or is zakah only due on the annual profits? And if zakah is due on them, what is the number?
Answer: Cows that are kept for production, upon which expenses are incurred and which are fed for most of the year, do not have zakah due on them in themselves, because zakah is only obligatory in grazing livestock,And grazing livestock: which are those that graze on permissible land for a year or most of it. As for those that are fed for most of the year, there is no zakah on their original value. However, if their yield results in wealth that reaches the nisab or more, then it is purified by paying one-tenth of its yield. Or if he sells them and a year passes over their price, then it is purified by paying one-tenth of it.
Question: If they are for trade, are they considered trade goods in this case?
Answer: If he raises them and sells some of them, then these are trade goods.
Question: Is their value assessed and zakah paid on them at the end of every year?
Answer: For what he sells, he pays zakah on its value when a year has passed over it. And for what remains, he assesses it at the completion of the year, or the year completes over the capital with which he bought them. If a year completes for them based on the capital with which he bought them, he pays zakah by taking one-tenth of their value that they equal at that time, not based on the value for which he bought them. It is the value that they equal at the time of paying zakah when the year is complete. He assesses them at this time for what they are worth and takes one-tenth of the assessed value.
Question: A number of camels were bought for me and my brothers, and since their purchase, they have been in a special enclosure from which they do not go out, and we provide them with what they eat, such as barley and the like. After the first year passed over them, we paid their zakah. In the second year,It was said to us: it is said that there is no zakah on them as long as they are given their food there and do not graze on their own. Is this correct, and what is obligatory for us in the future?
Answer: This question requires detail. If your intention in acquiring these camels is for trade, then there is zakah on them, because they are considered trade goods. The zakah is on their value, so you assess them at the end of the year for what they are worth, and you pay zakah by taking one-tenth of their value. It is zakah on value, not zakah on number.
However, if the purpose of your acquiring them is to breed these camels, seek their benefit, keep them, and drink their milk, then there is no zakah on them as long as you feed them for most of the year. And if they graze in the open for most of the year, then there is zakah on them.
Zakah is due on them if they reach the nisab, and the minimum nisab is five, in which there is one sheep.
Question: But he says: I bought them for me and my brothers. But would this not be shared wealth among them?
Answer: If they are grazing livestock, zakah is obligatory on them as long as they are mixed. The mixing makes them like one piece of wealth, even if they belong to a group.
Livestock
Question: There is a project for raising dairy cows that eat the feed prepared for them and do not graze on their own in the open. Is zakah due on them? Or is zakah only due on the annual profits? And if zakah is due on them, what is the number?
Answer: Cows that are kept for production, upon which expenses are incurred and which are fed for most of the year, do not have zakah due on them in themselves, because zakah is only obligatory in grazing livestock,And grazing livestock: which are those that graze on permissible land for a year or most of it. As for those that are fed for most of the year, there is no zakah on their original value. However, if their yield results in wealth that reaches the nisab or more, then it is purified by paying one-tenth of its yield. Or if he sells them and a year passes over their price, then it is purified by paying one-tenth of it.
Question: If they are for trade, are they considered trade goods in this case?
Answer: If he raises them and sells some of them, then these are trade goods.
Question: Is their value assessed and zakah paid on them at the end of every year?
Answer: For what he sells, he pays zakah on its value when a year has passed over it. And for what remains, he assesses it at the completion of the year, or the year completes over the capital with which he bought them. If a year completes for them based on the capital with which he bought them, he pays zakah by taking one-tenth of their value that they equal at that time, not based on the value for which he bought them. It is the value that they equal at the time of paying zakah when the year is complete. He assesses them at this time for what they are worth and takes one-tenth of the assessed value.
Question: A number of camels were bought for me and my brothers, and since their purchase, they have been in a special enclosure from which they do not go out, and we provide them with what they eat, such as barley and the like. After the first year passed over them, we paid their zakah. In the second year,It was said to us: it is said that there is no zakah on them as long as they are given their food there and do not graze on their own. Is this correct, and what is obligatory for us in the future?
Answer: This question requires detail. If your intention in acquiring these camels is for trade, then there is zakah on them, because they are considered trade goods. The zakah is on their value, so you assess them at the end of the year for what they are worth, and you pay zakah by taking one-tenth of their value. It is zakah on value, not zakah on number.
However, if the purpose of your acquiring them is to breed these camels, seek their benefit, keep them, and drink their milk, then there is no zakah on them as long as you feed them for most of the year. And if they graze in the open for most of the year, then there is zakah on them.
Zakah is due on them if they reach the nisab, and the minimum nisab is five, in which there is one sheep.
Question: But he says: I bought them for me and my brothers. But would this not be shared wealth among them?
Answer: If they are grazing livestock, zakah is obligatory on them as long as they are mixed. The mixing makes them like one piece of wealth, even if they belong to a group.