Our shaykh, a question about sheep: he asks about sheep that are fed throughout the year and do not leave their designated place. Is zakat due on them? We say there are two cases. The first case.

If they are fed, and what is meant by that is that a person benefits from their milk and their meat.

And he does not intend trade by that, and does not intend trade by that, then we say there is no zakat on them if the person is feeding them, and that is for most of the year.

For most of the year or half of it, then we say in that case there is no zakat. As for the second case, for example, someone feeds them but intends trade by them.

Profits from trade, like those who trade in camels or trade in cows or trade in sheep and the like.

And their intention in that is trade, not ownership and benefiting from the milk or wool or meat and so on, then we say in that case he must pay zakat on them because it is trade.

Some people, for example, raise sheep of certain ages and types, so when the time for sacrifice comes, or for example, when Ramadan comes.

He sells a thousand or a hundred or so of them, intending it as a business transaction. In that case, we say he must pay zakat on it if a year has passed.

So what is the amount? Is zakat paid on it as livestock?

It starts from forty. No, we say zakat is paid on it as trade goods, zakat is paid on it as trade goods, because it is valued.

In itself, and this is mentioned in the narration of Al-Hasan from Samura, and in Sunan Abu Dawood.

This was also the practice of Umar ibn Al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, and it is also reported as the consensus of the four imams.

Regarding this, on zakat for trade goods, only the Zahiris differed on this, and Allah knows best. May Allah reward you, sheikh, about a quarter of a minute.