Essential Questions & Answers Regarding: Contemporary Zakat

This is a compilation of important questions and answers pertaining to Zakāh. The author restricted it to the more 

contemporary issues revolving around money, gold, silver and merchandise. The Zakāh rulings regarding crops, 

cattle and similar issues are outside the scope of this compilation. In compiling these questions and answers, the 

author has 

benefitted from the following resources: 1. Al-Fiqh al-Muyassar by ‘Abdullāh at-Tayyār and others. 2. Ash-Sharḥ al-

Mumti’ by Ibn Uthaymīn. 3. Nawāzil az-Zakāh by al-Ghufayli. 4. Al-Mughni by Ibn Qudāmah. I have also benefitted 

from the fatāwa of contemporary scholars, namely Ibn Bāz, Ibn ‘Uthaymīn and Sa’d al-Khathlān - may Allah have 

mercy upon the deceased and preserve the living amongst them. Where appropriate, the author has referenced the 

answers, 

which may have been summarised from a particular fatwa or book. There are some contemporary issues that 

have 

not been discussed such as shares and crypto-assets due to further research and consultation being required. 

These issues will be added to the treatise in the ensuing version(s) inshaAllah.