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

وَلَا يَأْخُذُ الْمُصَدِّقُ خِيَارَ الْمَالِ وَلَا رَذَالَتَهُ، وَيَأْخُذُ الْوَسَطَ.
Translation: The collector shall take neither the best nor the worst of the property, but its middle quality.

The authorized collector must neither insist on the owner’s finest animal nor accept the poorest, defective animal as the standard obligation. The collector takes an animal of middling quality.

This protects the owner against excessive exaction and recipients against discharge with an unacceptably inferior animal.

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The Collector Takes Neither the Best nor the Worst

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

وَلَا يَأْخُذُ الْمُصَدِّقُ خِيَارَ الْمَالِ وَلَا رَذَالَتَهُ، وَيَأْخُذُ الْوَسَطَ.
Translation: The collector shall take neither the best nor the worst of the property, but its middle quality.

The authorized collector must neither insist on the owner’s finest animal nor accept the poorest, defective animal as the standard obligation. The collector takes an animal of middling quality.

This protects the owner against excessive exaction and recipients against discharge with an unacceptably inferior animal.