How is Zakat calculated when one owner has a larger share mixed with several partners?

Chapter on Zakat on Sheep

Al-Mughni

Book of Zakat

Book 8 · Issue 2 · Bab 3

Open in Qurani

Primary text

If one owner possesses sixty sheep and mixes them with three partners, each owning twenty sheep, one sheep is due from them all. Half of this obligation falls upon the owner of sixty, and the other half is divided among the three partners, making each owe one-sixth of a sheep.