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Contingencies Or Stipulations In Zakat Payment
Is it valid to place stipulations or make zakat payment to an individual contingent on a particular event?
Zakat payment, whether in cash or in kind, is paid in its entirety to the recipient (or the intermediary handling zakat distribution) without contingencies (e.g. it is unacceptable to say: “I will give you this zakat only if you use it to send your children to school” or “This zakat is being given to build this school”; rather, recipients may be advised about a course of action without imposing stipulations on the manner in which the property, which is effectively the recipient's, is spent).

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