Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah

Is permissible to used zakat money to treat injured animal?

· 8 Ramadan 1444 AH1 min readFatwa 19821English

Question

Is permissible to used zakat money to treat injured animal?

Answer

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

As-salāmu `alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.

It is not permissible to use zakat for the treatment of injured animals.

Zakat is to be paid to a human who is a Muslim and who is poor and needy as defined by Shariah. [1]

And Allah knows best.

Saeed Ahmed Golaub
Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies
Student Darul Iftaa

Checked and Approved
Mufti Ebrahim Desai
daruliftaa.net

(2012-03-09)

References (Arabic / Urdu sources)

[1]مشكاة المصابيح (1 / 570):

وَعَن ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ قَالَ: فَرَضَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ زَكَاةَ الْفِطْرِ طُهْرَ الصِّيَامِ مِنَ اللَّغْوِ وَالرَّفَثِ وَطُعْمَةً لِلْمَسَاكِينِ. رَوَاهُ أَبُو دَاوُد

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