Who Are Eligible And Ineligible To Receive Sadaqah Al-Fitr?
Who are eligible and ineligible to receive sadaqah al-fitr?
Sadaqah al-fitr is given to poor Muslims who are not dependant to the giver. A person who is obliged to give sadaqah al-fitr and to pay the monetary compensation (fidyah) for missed fasts must not benefit from these payments directly or indirectly. The same rule applies to zakat as well. In this regard, one cannot give zakat, sadaqah al-fitr and fidyah to their ascendants and descendants (parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, and grand grandchildren). In addition, spouses cannot give zakat, fitrah and fidyah to each other.
According to Hanafis, those who are ineligible to receive fitrah are as follows;
- a) Parents and grandparents,
- b) Son and his children, daughter and her children, and grand grandchildren from them,
- c) Spouse,
- d) The rich, i.e. who has wealth in nisab amount apart from basic needs,
- e) A child who has not reached puberty yet but has a rich father (Marghinani al-Hidayah, II, 223-228).
According to Shafi’is and Imam Abu Yusuf, fitrah is not given to a non-Muslim (Mawardi, al-Hawi, III, 387; X, 519; Marghinani, al-Hidayah, II, 223).
Zakat, fitrah and fidyah may be given to relatives such as siblings, aunts, uncles, and their children, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, mother-in-law and father-in-law if they are not rich. (Zaylai, Tabyin, I, 301)
Source: Presidency Of Religious Affairs The Turkey, High Board of Religious Affairs FATWA
