Giving Zakat al-Fitr.

The Shaykh :
It is obligatory to stand by this text, as we have said, especially given the problem with adhering to its exact wording. The problem is, for example, that to you...
It is clear that many people rush to pay the alms given at the end of Ramadan at the beginning of Ramadan, and some people...
...in the middle of Ramadan, and some people five or six days before the festival. Just now, some of the brothers asked me, "If I paid out..."
...the alms given at the end of Ramadan, I told him to redo it. Is the person who delays the alms given at the end of Ramadan until the beginning of Ramadan paying alms for fasting, not alms given at the end of Ramadan? Note this naming. The Wise Lawgiver named it the alms of breaking the fast, and the scholars...
...are in agreement on this. Nevertheless, the negligence of some people regarding the meaning contained in the naming reaches such a point that they pay this alms given at the end of Ramadan at the beginning of Ramadan, in the middle of Ramadan. Do you see? If this alms...
...is placed in the hand of a poor person, will it remain with him until the festival? In practice, this is not alms given at the end of Ramadan; it is alms for fasting.
...because it occurred in Ramadan. However, we might imagine that the poor person takes this alms at the beginning of Ramadan and saves it...
...until the festival. This might happen, but it is very rare. The needy person, as soon as the alms arrives, spends it on himself and his...
...family. In that case, in name and in reality, this is alms that occurred in Ramadan, not alms given at the end of Ramadan.
...and it is supposed to be alms given at the end of Ramadan, as is the discussion in the hadiths and books of Islamic jurisprudence. Therefore, if the one who pays zakah...
...is able, he should delay paying the alms given at the end of Ramadan until before the festival prayer. There is a margin. If it comes from...
...someone other than the narrator of the hadith, who is the Companion Abdullah ibn Umar, I personally would not accept it, fearing that it would not be alms given at the end of Ramadan. This Abdullah ibn Umar, who narrated this hadith, reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the payment of...
...the alms given at the end of Ramadan before the festival prayer. He said, "So we used to pay it out one or two days before the festival prayer." The narrator of the hadith...
...is the one who narrates this hadith from the Messenger (peace be upon him). He is only speaking about the method of the Companions...
...in paying out this alms. On the other hand, he says that they used to pay it out one or...
...two days before the festival prayer. So I took from this reality that Abdullah ibn Umar informed us about the least margin in this timing...
...and... for two reasons. The first reason, which is the primary one, is that it came from the Companion who narrated the hadith.
...and the Companion who narrated the hadith is more knowledgeable about his narration than others. This is a point of confusion among the jurists regarding...
...if the opinion of the narrator of the hadith conflicts with his narration. The majority of scholars hold that if the opinion of the narrator of the hadith conflicts with...
...his narration, his narration takes precedence over his opinion, contrary to the Hanafis, who reversed this issue and said that the opinion of the narrator...
...takes precedence over his narration. And I, without doubt, hold that the opinion does not take precedence over the hadith... but this is in the case...
...of a conflict between the opinion and the narration. However, when there is... a conflict, rather, there is a specification, as I said regarding the meaning of specification...
...in that case, we take from the Companion what he informed us about, which was that it occurred in the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), which was their order to pay it out before the festival prayer. This is the first thing that convinced me to adopt this...
...position. The other thing is that I find, by design and by practice, that some people may not be able to pay the alms given at the end of Ramadan...
...with this exactness before the festival prayer. For example, if he is departing for the prayer place, it may not be feasible for him. It may be feasible for him...
...for example, to pay it out in the evening. He might be, for example, farther away, so he pays it out one day or a day and a night before. And so on. If this hadith...
...orders us to pay the alms before the festival prayer, then this is how we should do it, unless it is not feasible for us, in which case we take a margin of...
...one day at most, two days. And the matter is easy. Before the prayer, it is an order from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The story of one...
...day and two days is the application of the Companions of the Messenger, in the time of the Messenger, and in his era. These are the issues that I saw fit to speak about...
...on this occasion. I now have some other issues regarding the festival prayer. If there are any questions about the alms, I will answer them; otherwise, I will continue my speech.
He commands us to give charity before the prayer of the festival, so this is how we should do it, unless it is not feasible for us, in which case we take a break.
One day, or perhaps two days, and the matter is easy. Giving charity before the prayer is a command from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), and the story of the day
of two days is the application of the Companions of the Messenger, in the time of the Messenger, and in his era. These are the issues that I saw fit to speak about
on this occasion. I now have some other issues regarding the prayer of the festival. If there are any
questions about the charity, I will answer them; otherwise, I will continue my speech.