What is the ruling when one partner in jointly owned wealth sells his share to his co-owner midway through the Hawl?

Chapter on Zakat on Sheep

Al-Mughni

Book of Zakat

Book 8 · Issue 5 · Bab 3

Open in Qurani

Primary text

This scenario is the reverse of the first issue: where there was self-mixing, it became mixing with a stranger, and here, where there was mixing with a stranger, it becomes self-mixing. Following Abu Bakr's opinion, the owner owes nothing until the Hawl is completed on the combined wealth from the time he gained ownership of both parts, unless one part individually reaches the Nisab.

Supporting text

Following Ibn Hamid's opinion, Zakah is due on the half share that belonged to him specifically.