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Ruling 1976. If a person can deliver zakat to someone entitled to receive it but does not, and the zakat perishes due to his negligence, he must give
Ruling 1975. After separating zakat [from one’s property], it is not necessary that he immediately gives it to someone who is entitled to receive it,
Ruling 1974. When wheat and barley are separated from the chaff, and when dates and grapes become dry, one must give zakat to the poor or separate it
Ruling 1973. If a person appoints someone as his agent to give away the zakat of his property, he must make the intention when he hands over the zakat
Ruling 1972. If it is obligatory for a person to give zakat on various items and he gives some zakat without specifying in his intention which item it
Ruling 1971. A person must give zakat with the intention of qurbah, i.e. in humility to Allah the Exalted. If he gives zakat without the intention of
Ruling 1970. Zakat can be given to a person whom one does not know whether he is a sayyid or not. However, if that person himself claims that he is a
Ruling 1969. A sayyid[1] cannot accept zakat from someone who is not a sayyid except in case of necessity; and based on obligatory precaution, the nec
Ruling 1968. A woman can give zakat to her husband who is poor, even if the husband spends that zakat on her living expenses.
Ruling 1967. If a woman who has contracted a temporary marriage (mutʿah) is poor, her husband and others can give her zakat. However, if she had stipu
Ruling 1966. Zakat cannot be given to a woman whose husband provides for her living expenses, nor to a woman whose husband does not provide for her li
Ruling 1965. A father can use zakat to get his poor son married, and the same applies to the son with respect to his father.
Ruling 1964. A father cannot buy educational and religious books that are required by his son from the ‘in the way of Allah’ portion of zakat and make
Ruling 1963. There is no problem if one gives zakat to his son so that he can pay for the living expenses of his wife, domestic worker, or maid, or so
Ruling 1962. A person cannot pay the living expenses of those whose expenses are obligatory for him – such as his children, father and mother, and per
Ruling 1961. If a person is in debt but is unable to repay his debt, one can repay it for him from zakat even if his expenses are obligatory for him.
Ruling 1960. The obligatory precaution is that one must not give zakat to a person who consumes alcohol, does not perform prayers, or publicly commits
Ruling 1959. A person can give zakat to a poor person who begs provided that the fact of his poverty is established. However, one must not give zakat
Ruling 1958. If a poor Shia individual is a non-bāligh child or an insane person, one may give zakat to his guardian (walī) with the intention that wh
Ruling 1957. The receiver of zakat must be a Twelver (Ithnā ʿAsharī) Shia. If one gives zakat to a person he believes to be a Shia and later realises