Agency In Zakat And Its Provisions In Islamic Jurisprudence

Abstract

The research aims to clarify the concept of agency in Zakat, its types, terms and conditions; Where the jurists dealt with agency in the jurisprudence of transactions and zakat in the jurisprudence of worship, but few of them dealt with the subject under investigation.

The research reached important results, including: the agency’s permissibility of zakat payments and receipts, the inadmissibility of the agent taking zakat from zakat except with the permission of the client, and the inadmissibility of the agent assigning another agent to zakat without the permission of the client, the lack of guarantee for the agent if the zakat is destroyed in his hand without shortcoming from him.