Ruling on paying off a debtor's debt from zakah
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Finally, he asks and says: A person died and he had a debt in his liability, and he has no estate to pay off his debt. Is his debt paid off from zakah?
Answer: There is scholarly disagreement on this, and the correct view is that there is no harm in paying it off from zakah; because he is among those in debt, and those in debt are a category of the categories of zakah by the text of the noble verse [Surah al-Tawbah: 60], the verse. So if the zakah is spent in paying off his debt, there is no harm, if Allah wills, in the most correct of the scholars' opinions.
The presenter: May Allah bless you, and may Allah reward you with good.
Answer: There is scholarly disagreement on this, and the correct view is that there is no harm in paying it off from zakah; because he is among those in debt, and those in debt are a category of the categories of zakah by the text of the noble verse
Zakah expenditures are only for the poor
إِنَّمَا الصَّدَقَاتُ لِلْفُقَرَاءِThe presenter: May Allah bless you, and may Allah reward you with good.
Source
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