If one places money with a person to give to another, and a year passes without it being delivered, is zakah due on it?
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The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : A deposit, you mean? He gave it to him.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, but a year has passed and he has not seen so-and-so, so it remains the property of the first person, and zakah is due on it. How is it his property? If this person who intended to give the money to so-and-so dies, is the money inherited?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : No.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I counted a thousand riyals that I want for a poor person, but the poor person did not come, I did not see him. Does it come out of my ownership or not? It does not come out of my ownership, so the zakah is upon me. Yes, Khalid?
The Shaykh : A deposit, you mean? He gave it to him.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : Yes, but a year has passed and he has not seen so-and-so, so it remains the property of the first person, and zakah is due on it. How is it his property? If this person who intended to give the money to so-and-so dies, is the money inherited?
The questioner : Yes.
The Shaykh : No.
The questioner : ... .
The Shaykh : I counted a thousand riyals that I want for a poor person, but the poor person did not come, I did not see him. Does it come out of my ownership or not? It does not come out of my ownership, so the zakah is upon me. Yes, Khalid?