95880: Paying zakaah on a fund collected by a group of employees
What is the ruling on participating in a fund collected by a
group of people, every person pays a fixed amount monthly, and
in the end of every month a lot takes place and the chosen one
takes all fund collected and so on, until everyone takes his
share of it. Should a person pay Zakah when he gets his share?.
Praise be to Allaah.   This transaction which is known as an
employees’ fund is the subject of a difference of scholarly
opinion, but most of them are of the view that it is
permissible.   Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (may Allaah have mercy on
him) was asked about a group of teachers who, at the end of
every month, collect a sum of money from their salaries and give
it to one of them; the following month they give it to another
person, and so on until all of them have taken their share. What
is the Islamic ruling on that?   He replied:   There is nothing
wrong with that. It is a laon in which there is no stipulation
that anyone be given any add