LessonsMiscellaneous Zakat Rules: Substitutes, Value, Grazing and the Zakat YearQuiz

وَيَجُوزُ دَفْعُ الْقِيَمِ فِي الزَّكَاةِ.
Translation: It is permissible to pay equivalent values in zakat.

In the Hanafi school, payment of the equivalent value is permitted for zakat. An assessed animal or commodity obligation can therefore be discharged by its established monetary equivalent.

This is not a universal permission to replace the prescribed acts of every devotional duty with money: sacrifice and other obligations have distinct rules. Al-Shafi‘i’s approach more tightly requires delivery of the specified class of property.

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Payment of Zakat by Equivalent Value

Miscellaneous Zakat Rules: Substitutes, Value, Grazing and the Zakat Year

وَيَجُوزُ دَفْعُ الْقِيَمِ فِي الزَّكَاةِ.
Translation: It is permissible to pay equivalent values in zakat.

In the Hanafi school, payment of the equivalent value is permitted for zakat. An assessed animal or commodity obligation can therefore be discharged by its established monetary equivalent.

This is not a universal permission to replace the prescribed acts of every devotional duty with money: sacrifice and other obligations have distinct rules. Al-Shafi‘i’s approach more tightly requires delivery of the specified class of property.