Three quality categories are distinguished: khiyar (exceptional prime stock), radhalah (inferior defective stock), and wasat (ordinary middling stock).
For example, if a herd contains a very expensive pedigree cow, a diseased cow and a sound average cow, the ordinary assessment favors the sound average animal. Mere lower market price does not always mean a legally defective animal.
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Miscellaneous Zakat Rules: Substitutes, Value, Grazing and the Zakat Year
Three quality categories are distinguished: khiyar (exceptional prime stock), radhalah (inferior defective stock), and wasat (ordinary middling stock).
For example, if a herd contains a very expensive pedigree cow, a diseased cow and a sound average cow, the ordinary assessment favors the sound average animal. Mere lower market price does not always mean a legally defective animal.