Conditions for the Obligation of Zakah in Gold
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Question:
The questioner: His Eminence the Shaykh, this is a questioner from Riyadh who has a set of questions. She begins with this question and says: His Eminence the Shaykh! I have a collection of used gold, and I wanted to pay its zakah. When I went to weigh it, I found it weighed approximately seventy-nine grams, which is below the nisab of eighty-five grams. However, on the same day I weighed the old gold, I bought other gold weighing twenty-three grams, so the total weight of the new and old gold became approximately one hundred and two grams. The question is, O His Eminence the Shaykh: Do I add the total weight of the gold I bought to the weight of the old gold and pay zakah on it, or do I wait until the lunar year (hawl) passes for the new gold, and then pay zakah on both the old and new gold together? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer:
The Shaykh: Yes, you do not owe zakah in the current lunar year. But after adding the new gold to the old, if the lunar year passes, you pay zakah on it. Before that, you do not, because it is below the threshold. But after the lunar year passes for the new gold, you pay zakah on the old and the new, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
The questioner: His Eminence the Shaykh, this is a questioner from Riyadh who has a set of questions. She begins with this question and says: His Eminence the Shaykh! I have a collection of used gold, and I wanted to pay its zakah. When I went to weigh it, I found it weighed approximately seventy-nine grams, which is below the nisab of eighty-five grams. However, on the same day I weighed the old gold, I bought other gold weighing twenty-three grams, so the total weight of the new and old gold became approximately one hundred and two grams. The question is, O His Eminence the Shaykh: Do I add the total weight of the gold I bought to the weight of the old gold and pay zakah on it, or do I wait until the lunar year (hawl) passes for the new gold, and then pay zakah on both the old and new gold together? Please inform us, may Allah reward you.
Answer:
The Shaykh: Yes, you do not owe zakah in the current lunar year. But after adding the new gold to the old, if the lunar year passes, you pay zakah on it. Before that, you do not, because it is below the threshold. But after the lunar year passes for the new gold, you pay zakah on the old and the new, and praise be to Allah. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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