To Compromise about the Quantity of Maluzzakat
Issue No. 1685- A poor person cannot compromise with the payer, for a quantity less than the quantity of zakāt, or accept [as zakāt] something at a price higher than the price of the quantity of zakāt, or take zakāt from its owner and then give it back to him as a present. Even if a person owes a large sum of zakāt, and has become poor and is unable to pay zakāt, it will remain due from him similar to his other debts; and it is not allowed as an obligatory precaution to pay it back to himself.
