PURIFYING CHARITY (ZAKAH)

(According to the Qur’an and Sunnah, as extracted and inferred by scholars of the Hanafi

school.)

From “Mukhtasar al-Quduri“, a matn of Hanafi fiqh

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• Obligation
• Silver
• Gold
• Trade Goods
• Recipients
• Sadaqat al-Fitr

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1.0 OBLIGATION

1. Zakat is obligatory on

– the free, adult sane Muslim,

– when he possesses the nisab with complete possession, and

– a [lunar] year has passed over it.

There is no zakat [obligatory] upon a child, nor an insane person,
nor a mukatib. Continue reading “4-Zakat” →