If a person has forty sheep but he feeds them, is zakah due on them?
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The Shaykh : Now, if a person has sheep—pay attention to the question!—he has sheep, livestock that reaches forty sheep, but he spends on them and feeds them. Is zakah due on these forty? Please, go ahead.
The student: There is no zakah due on him.
The Shaykh : Why?
The student: Because they are not grazing freely.
The Shaykh : That is correct. Forty sheep with a farmer who has forty sheep, or a hundred, or two hundred, but he has prepared them for breeding and he spends on them, so we tell him: there is no zakah due on you because they are not grazing freely. Rest easy, my brother! Please, ask your question since you are the one asking?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : What did you do?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : But when did the doubt come to you, while you were performing tawaf or after you had finished?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : The doubt that occurred to you?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : But you, when you performed tawaf and sa'y, you believed that the tawaf and sa'y were completed?
The questioner : I don't know, I don't know...
The Shaykh : It is nothing on you, if Allah wills.
The student: There is no zakah due on him.
The Shaykh : Why?
The student: Because they are not grazing freely.
The Shaykh : That is correct. Forty sheep with a farmer who has forty sheep, or a hundred, or two hundred, but he has prepared them for breeding and he spends on them, so we tell him: there is no zakah due on you because they are not grazing freely. Rest easy, my brother! Please, ask your question since you are the one asking?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : What did you do?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : But when did the doubt come to you, while you were performing tawaf or after you had finished?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : The doubt that occurred to you?
The questioner : ...
The Shaykh : But you, when you performed tawaf and sa'y, you believed that the tawaf and sa'y were completed?
The questioner : I don't know, I don't know...
The Shaykh : It is nothing on you, if Allah wills.