The two companions emphasize the one-fortieth rate. On this reasoning, every amount above 200 is also zakatable property and its proportionate share is due.
They rely on the reported wording, “whatever exceeds two hundred is assessed proportionately,” whereas Abu Hanifa gives weight to reports identifying a further forty-dirham threshold.
Thus the disagreement concerns increments and fractions, not whether silver zakat is obligatory.
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Zakat on Silver: Nisab, Incremental Dues and Alloyed Dirhams
The two companions emphasize the one-fortieth rate. On this reasoning, every amount above 200 is also zakatable property and its proportionate share is due.
They rely on the reported wording, “whatever exceeds two hundred is assessed proportionately,” whereas Abu Hanifa gives weight to reports identifying a further forty-dirham threshold.
Thus the disagreement concerns increments and fractions, not whether silver zakat is obligatory.