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📩 Question:

What is the last time one can give the Zakat al-Fitr?

📝 The answer:

The time of giving Zakat al-Fitr ends with the finishing of the Eid prayer. Thus, giving it after the prayer, or delaying it until after the prayer does not suffice. It is a worship which has a specific time for it.

The beginning time for it is when the sun of Ramadhan sets according to the correct scholarly view, in contrast to those who said it is from the beginning of Ramadhan, or from half way through Ramadhan, for they do not have any evidence in support of it.

The legislation permitted for it to be brought earlier by a day or two as has come in the Hadith of ibn ‘Umar (رضي الله عنهما) in Bukhari, he said in the Hadith:
وَكَانُوا يُعْطُونَ قَبْلَ الفِطْرِ بِيَوْمٍ أَوْ يَوْمَيْنِ
“People used to give Sadaqat-ul-Fitr (even) a day or two before ‘Eid”
And in another narration of Imam Malik:
بثلاثة أيام
“Three days before”
Thus, anything more than this does not suffice.

This is from the wisdom behind the legislation, for they may be in a place where there are a lot of people and it is not possible to collect it all except by bringing it forward a day, two days or three, and anything more than that then we do not have any legislative evidence permitting that thus bringing it forward would not be sufficient as it is worship which has a specific time allocated to it.

As for the one who views the permissibility of bringing it forward to the start of the month of Ramadhan, then they are some of the Shafi’iyyah, and those who view the permissibility of bringing it forward until half of the month of Ramadhan has passed are the Hanbalis. Most of the scholars view the impermissibility of giving it earlier and this is the Madhab of Ahmad in that which is famously ascribed to him, as well as the view of Maalik and it is the correct view in this issue.

The Hanafis went to extremes and said that it is permissible to give it as early as the start of the year, and this is very very distant, and we ask Allah for uprightness.

Original Fatwa:
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📩 Question:

Should Zakat al-Fitr be given to the eight types of people (that Zakat on wealth is given to)?

📝 The answer:

Zakat al-Fitr is to be given to the poor and the needy only, as has come in the Hadith of ibn ‘Abbaas who said:
فَرَضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ زَكَاةَ الْفِطْرِ طُهْرَةً لِلصَّائِمِ مِنَ اللَّغْوِ وَالرَّفَثِ، وَطُعْمَةً لِلْمَسَاكِينِ، مَنْ أَدَّاهَا قَبْلَ الصَّلَاةِ، فَهِيَ زَكَاةٌ مَقْبُولَةٌ، وَمَنْ أَدَّاهَا بَعْدَ الصَّلَاةِ، فَهِيَ صَدَقَةٌ مِنَ الصَّدَقَاتِ
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) enjoined Zakat-ul-fitr on the one who fasts (i.e. fasted during the month of Ramadan) to purify him from any indecent act or speech and for the purpose of providing food for the needy. It is accepted as Zakah for the person who pays it before the Eid prayer and it is Sadaqah (i.e. voluntary charity) for the person who pays it after the Eid prayer.”

So it should be given to those in dire need from the poor and needy people. It should be given to the poor and the needy and none other, as has come in the Hadith.

Original Fatwa:
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📩 Question:

What is the response to the one who says: Zakat al-Fitr should be given according to the needs of the poor person, if the poor person is in need of money, then he should be given money, and if the poor person is in need of food, then they should be given food. And they say that this detail was mentioned by Imam Ahmad?

📝 The answer:

As for Imam Ahmad (رحمه الله) then he did not say that. Rather, that which is known from Imam Ahmad (رحمه الله) that he issued a verdict that it must not be given in any form except for food.

So the matter is as has preceded and that is that benefit is in abiding by the legislative rulings how Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) wants it to be done. So that which Allah has commanded us to do, we do that.

As for giving ourselves authority in the religion of Allah (عز وجل) then this is not appropriate. That which is correct is that it is not connected to that which we view to be of benefit, rather the benefit is to act in accordance with the legislation of Allah (جل وعلا).

Original Fatwa:
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📩 Question:

What is the ruling of Zakat al-Fitr?

📝 The answer:

It is obligatory. In the Saheehayn on the authority of ibn ‘Umar (رضي الله عنهما) who said:
فَرَضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ زَكَاةَ الفِطْرِ صَاعًا مِنْ تَمْرٍ، أَوْ صَاعًا مِنْ شَعِيرٍ عَلَى العَبْدِ وَالحُرِّ، وَالذَّكَرِ وَالأُنْثَى، وَالصَّغِيرِ وَالكَبِيرِ مِنَ المُسْلِمِينَ، وَأَمَرَ بِهَا أَنْ تُؤَدَّى قَبْلَ خُرُوجِ النَّاسِ إِلَى الصَّلاَةِ
“The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) enjoined the payment of one Saa' of dates or one Saa' of barley as Zakat-ul-fitr on every Muslim, slave or free, male or female, young or old, and he ordered that it be paid before the people went out to offer the 'Eid prayer.”

An-Nawawi said: "Ibn al-Mundhir mentioned there being a unanimous consensus upon this.” i.e., that it is from the obligations.

And from those who stated there being a unanimous consensus is Ishaaq bin Rahawey who said it is like a unanimous concensus amongst the people of knowledge.

Ibn Qudamah (رحمه الله عز وجل) said: “Zakat al-Fitr is obligatory upon ever Muslim, child or adult, male or female according to the majority of the people of knowledge. And it is obligatory upon the orphan, and their guardian must pay it on their behalf from their wealth. We do not know of anyone who opposed in this except for Muhammad bin al-Hassan who said: ‘There is no charity upon the wealth of a child’. And al-Hasan and al-Sha’bi said: ‘Zakat al-Fitr is upon the one who fasted from the slave or the free’.”

So the correct view is that it is obligatory upon every child or adult, male or female, even upon the slaves themselves. Zakat is not obligatory upon slaves however with regards to Zakat al-Fitr then it is obligatory upon their masters to give it on their behalf.

Original Fatwa:
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📩 Question:

Is Zakat al-Fitr to be given on behalf of the child who was born on the night of ‘Eid?

📝 The answer:

He was born during the time of this worship thus it is to be given on his behalf and he is included in the Hadith:
عن كل صغير وكبير
“On behalf of every child or adult”

So the correct view is that it is obligatory for it to be given on his behalf. And all aid and assistance is sought from Allah alone.

Original Fatwa:
https://t.me/ibnhezam/16617

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📩 Question:

The questioner asks: Is Zakat al-Fitr obligatory on behalf of the embryo?

📝 The answer:

Zakat al-Fitr is obligatory upon every young or old person, regardless of if they are from those who fasted or they didn’t fast. As for an embryo, then it does not take the ruling of being outside, thus it is not obligatory to pay it on behalf of an embryo as perhaps it may not even be born alive, so there is no Zakat upon the embryo. Rather the Prophet (ﷺ) said:
(على كل صغيرٍ وكبير ذكرٍ وأنثى)
“Upon every young or old, male or female."

And Zakat al-Fitr has been called Zakat al-Fitr in the legislation. So the terminology that it is Zakat al-Nafs (Zakat on behalf of the soul) as is used by some of the people, Zakat al-Nafs, the chosen view is to leave this name for it has not come in the legislative texts. The Prophet (ﷺ) called it Zakat al-Fitr and Sadaqat al-Fitr, so the wording should not be changed. The people have began calling it Zakat al-Nafs and this is a mistake, they should say Zakat al-Fitr.

Original Fatwa:
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