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Question ID: 66517Country: Saudi Arabia

Title: Zakah on residential flats

Question: I have a flat in which my mother and an unmarried sister lives. This is in my name. I have bought another flat for the purpose of living in it and I have bought it in my wife's name. We are still to be handed over the second house. Do I have to pay zakah on these flats?

Answer ID: 66517Posted on: Aug 30, 2020

Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Rahim !

(Fatwa: 764/663/D=10/1437)

No zakah is wajib on the said two flats. Zakah is wajib on things which is bought with the intention of business to earn profit. In such a case it becomes business item hence zakah becomes wajib on it. Both of your flats have been bought with intention to live; hence no zakah shall be wajib on their value.

Allah (Subhana Wa Ta'ala) knows Best

Darul Ifta,

Darul Uloom Deoband, India

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Title: Zakah on residential flats

Question: I have a flat in which my mother and an unmarried sister lives. This is in my name. I have bought another flat for the purpose of living in it and I have bought it in my wife's name. We are still to be handed over the second house. Do I have to pay zakah on these flats?

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