What is the ruling if a shop is sold twice to two different people? Does each of them have to pay zakah for the period the shop was in their possession?
Machine translationRead the Arabic original
The questioner : Okay, and if, Shaykh, the shop is, for example, this one...
The Shaykh : It is the same question, may Allah reward you.
The questioner : It is the same problem, meaning this shop is sold twice to two people. Does each person pay zakah for a period of six months?
The Shaykh : No. If ownership of the zakatable wealth transfers before the completion of the lunar year, and if it is merchandise for trade, the first owner pays zakah on what he received along with his other wealth.
An example of this is a person who has land for trade and sells it two months before his zakah becomes due. When the zakah becomes due two months later, it is obligatory for him to pay the zakah on the money for which he sold this land.
However, if he sold it for money and then used that money to buy a house for his residence, he owes no zakah, even if more than a lunar year has passed. As for the second person to whom it was transferred, it must be examined whether it was transferred to him in a way that makes zakah obligatory, such as if he bought it for trade. In that case, the lunar year for it is based on the lunar year of the wealth he had before it. And if he bought it...
The Shaykh : It is the same question, may Allah reward you.
The questioner : It is the same problem, meaning this shop is sold twice to two people. Does each person pay zakah for a period of six months?
The Shaykh : No. If ownership of the zakatable wealth transfers before the completion of the lunar year, and if it is merchandise for trade, the first owner pays zakah on what he received along with his other wealth.
An example of this is a person who has land for trade and sells it two months before his zakah becomes due. When the zakah becomes due two months later, it is obligatory for him to pay the zakah on the money for which he sold this land.
However, if he sold it for money and then used that money to buy a house for his residence, he owes no zakah, even if more than a lunar year has passed. As for the second person to whom it was transferred, it must be examined whether it was transferred to him in a way that makes zakah obligatory, such as if he bought it for trade. In that case, the lunar year for it is based on the lunar year of the wealth he had before it. And if he bought it...