Saturday 22/March/2025 – 07:43 AM
The Egyptian Dar Al -Iftaa replied, a question that was mentioned to it: What is the ruling on paying zakat al -Fitr with meat?
The house said on its official website: It is permissible to pay zakat al -Fitr with meat; If it is one of the most powerful people of the country, and it has benefit and enrichment for the poor on the day of Eid; When it is decided that what is meant by zakat al -Fitr is to meet the need of the poor and the needy on this day, and their sympathy of the gender of the people of their country.
Al -Iftaa added: If it is the best and success for the purposes of Sharia and the attachment of the interests of creation, it is permissible to pay zakat al -Fitr money; In order to be able to buy and spend his needs of food – whatever its type and gender – and others.
The rule of zakat al -Fitr and the statement of its legitimacy
Dar Al -Iftaa explained that zakat al -Fitr is an amount of money that is required for a Muslim on specific conditions; Small or large, male or female, and the Prophet, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him and his family, has estimated it with a saa of dates, barley, or the strength of the country, which is 2.040 kg -on the doctrine of the public -, on every soul of Muslims; As in the hadith of Abdullah bin Omar, may God be pleased with them: “The Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, and his family, imposed the Zakat of Fair, from a bitterness, or from a righteousness, Abd, male or female from the Muslims »agreed upon. In another narration: “On the servant and the free, the male and the female, the young and the great of the Muslims” was included by Al -Bukhari.
The Ifta continued: The consensus was conveyed on the necessity of only one of the imams; Like Imam Ibn Al -Muhdar in “Al -Adifa” (3/61, i.
