Distributing Zakaah in other than money

Reference: https://x.com/alqaryooti/status/1135139487007334401


al-Liqaa ash-Shahree – v12, p41

Question: Is it permissible to convert the money [extracted] for the Zakaah to tangible food items and other than that, and then distribute [that instead] to the poor and needy?

Response: [That is] not permissible. It is imperative that it (Zakaah) be distributed as money…

Reference: Majmoo’ Fataawa wa Rasaa.il Ibn ‘Uthaymeen – v18, p303

Response: It is imperative the Zakaah of money be in money, and it is not to be extracted in any other form, unless the poor and needy [recipient] entrusted you by saying “if you receive any Zakaah [on my behalf], then buy such-and-such with it for me…” – then there is no harm [in doing so]…


Translation originally published on 5 June, 2019.

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.

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