Zakat on Healthy Animals Should be Paid from Healthy Animals
Issue No. 1639- If all sheep, cows and camels are healthy and young, he cannot pay their zakāt from unhealthy, defective and old ones. Rather, if some of them are healthy, and others are unhealthy, some are defective and others are not, and some are old and others are young, the obligatory precaution is that he should give as zakāt those animals, which are healthy, without defect and young. However, if all of them are unhealthy, defective and old, he can pay zakāt from amongst them.
