LessonsZakat on Crops and Fruits: Ushr, Irrigation, and NisabQuiz

إلا الحطب والقصب والحشيش
Translation: Except wood, reeds, and grass.

The general statement is immediately qualified by three exceptions: firewood, reeds, and grass. The universal wording must be read together with its exceptions.

Later Hanafi commentary discusses particular deliberately cultivated forms separately; do not extrapolate a blanket modern ruling from these three words alone.

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Wood, reeds, and grass

Zakat on Crops and Fruits: Ushr, Irrigation, and Nisab

إلا الحطب والقصب والحشيش
Translation: Except wood, reeds, and grass.

The general statement is immediately qualified by three exceptions: firewood, reeds, and grass. The universal wording must be read together with its exceptions.

Later Hanafi commentary discusses particular deliberately cultivated forms separately; do not extrapolate a blanket modern ruling from these three words alone.