Issue No. 1680- One can take zakāt to another town, even if a deserving person is available in his own area. However, as an obligatory precaution, he should himself pay the expenses of taking it to the other area and if it perishes, he will be responsible, even though it has been with the permission of the Mujtahid or his representative.
Issue No. 1681- The wages for weighing and scaling of wheat, barley and the likes which a person gives as zakāt, are to be paid by him.
Issue No. 1682- As an obligatory precaution, a zakāt payer should not give less than the first taxable limit of silver, that is, 3.5 mithqāls (equal to 12.09 gms), to one poor person, and if he is giving something other than silver as zakāt, (e.g., wheat and barley), its value should not be less than this quantity either.
Issue No. 1683- It is makrūh for a person to request the deserving person to sell back to him what was offered to him as zakāt. However, if the deserving person himself wishes to exchange the item that he has received for money, the person who has given him zakāt will have priority over others.
Issue No. 1684- If a person doubts whether he has paid the obligatory zakāt or not, he should pay it, even if his doubt is with regard to zakāt for earlier years.
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.
Issue No. 1686- A person may purchase, using zakāt, the Holy Qur’an and other religious, scientific, or supplication books, and other books that are effective in the promotion of Islamic aims, and dedicate them as waqf (endowment) for the general public or for particular persons. He can even dedicate them as waqf upon his children or upon persons whose maintenance is obligatory on him. However, he cannot purchase a property with zakāt and dedicate it as waqf in favour of his children.
Issue No. 1687- A poor person can receive zakāt for going to ḥajj or perfomring Ziyarat, etc., but if he has received zakāt for his annual expenses, then, it is not permissible to take zakāt for Ziyarat, etc. as an obligatory precaution.
Issue No. 1688- If the owner of a property makes someone his representative in paying the zakāt of his wealth, and if one can gather from what he said that he should pay it to people other than the representative himself, then the representative himself cannot take anything from it for himself, even though he may be a deserving person. However, if what he said implies that he meant every deserving person, then the [deserving] representative can also benefit from it.
Issue No. 1690- If two persons share a property which has become liable to zakāt, and one of them pays his share of zakāt, and then they divide the property, there will be no problem for him to make use of his own share, though his partner may not have paid his share of zakāt.
Issue No. 1691- If a person owes khums or zakāt and it is also obligatory for him to pay atonement and also to give 'nadhr' (vow), etc. and he is also indebted and cannot make all these payments, and the property on which khums or zakāt has become obligatory has not perished, he should give khums and zakāt. In case that property has perished, he should give priority to the people’s right as an obligatory precaution, and if such a person dies, and his wealth is not sufficient for all of these debts, the same order should be observed.
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