The Amount of Zakat al-Fitr

Question:
The letter before us, and the last one in this session, came from the contracted listener Muhammad Kamal Muhammad from the Arab Republic of Egypt. He says: What is the amount of zakat al-fitr and its time? I believe he means by "the soul" the fitrah or zakat al-fitr?

Answer:
If the question refers to zakat al-fitr from Ramadan, its amount is a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of all staple foods, from all staple foods: a sa' of wheat, a sa' of barley, a sa' of dates, a sa' of the staple food of the country. It is four handfuls with two moderate, full hands. This is the sa'. It is four mudds (a quarter of a sa'), and a mudd is a handful with two full hands, and the four make a sa'. By weight, the sa' is four hundred and eighty mithqals, and the mudd is one hundred and twenty mithqals.
So the result is: the zakat is only a sa' of the staple food of the country. This is how the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) ordered the people to give charity: a sa' of dates or a sa' of barley, and so on. and so on. The Companions also gave it out as a sa' of dates... a sa' of barley... a sa' of wheat... a sa' of raisins... a sa' of food. This is what is obligatory for the people, for the young and the old, the male and the female, whether it is wheat (which is the hana) or otherwise.
Some scholars said: it is sufficient to give half a sa' of wheat (hana). But this is the weaker position. The correct view is that it is necessary to give a sa' of all the staple foods in the country. Yes.