The Zakaah due on a car

Reference: Muhammad Naasiruddeen al-Albaanee – Muhaddith al-’Asr and Naasir as-Sunnah – Page 46.

Muhammad al-Khateeb, who had worked in the Shaykh’s house for six years, narrates:

As for the Shaykh’s car, then it was as if it were a camel carrying the brothers, because the Shaykh used to take them from one place to another in it. He would say to me:

“O Muhammad! My father رحمه الله used to say, there is zakaah due on everything, and the zakaah due on a car is in carrying (giving lifts to) people.”


Translation originally published on 1 September, 2016.

Graduate of the Islaamic University of Madeenah, having completed the Arabic Language programme at the Institute of Arabic Language before progressing to the Faculty of Sharee'ah, from which he graduated in 2004. He currently resides in Birmingham, UK.