Ruling on paying Zakat al-Fitr before its time due to being occupied with travel or otherwise
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About a man who paid Zakat al-Fitr on the twenty-sixth day of Ramadan because of his travel?
The scholars say: If a person performs a time-bound act of worship before its time, it is not valid;But the meaning of their saying: it is not valid; there is no reward for it, if the person did so out of ignorance; he is rewarded for it, but he is obligated to perform it in its time.
So these people who paid their Fitr on the twenty-sixth,We say to them: they repeat it now, they pay it now as making up for a missed act of worship, the analogy of that is if someone thought that the time for the midday prayer had entered; so he prayed the midday prayer before its time, then the matter became clear; he prays the midday prayer in its time, and his first prayer becomes a voluntary prayer for which he is rewarded.
The scholars say: If a person performs a time-bound act of worship before its time, it is not valid;But the meaning of their saying: it is not valid; there is no reward for it, if the person did so out of ignorance; he is rewarded for it, but he is obligated to perform it in its time.
So these people who paid their Fitr on the twenty-sixth,We say to them: they repeat it now, they pay it now as making up for a missed act of worship, the analogy of that is if someone thought that the time for the midday prayer had entered; so he prayed the midday prayer before its time, then the matter became clear; he prays the midday prayer in its time, and his first prayer becomes a voluntary prayer for which he is rewarded.