Rule :
- You must own
40 animal .
- livestock : camels, cows or sheep/goats . neither male or female is specified .
- One-year-old Bull-Calf or Two-year-old Cow-Calf.
- Lapse of a full Hijra year while the animals are with the owner.
- It must be grazed livestock. A grazed camel is that which is fed by eating from plants of the earth and permissible grass i.e. that which grows by Allah’s command without being cultivated by anybody. However, if it feeds on cultivated crops; then it is not regarded as a grazed camel and Zakah is not due on it.
- It must be kept for some benefit, either from its milk or offspring, and not used as a working camel. A working camel is that which is employed by its owner to till or irrigate the land, carry goods or lift loads.
- Zakah is not payable on a working camel, because they are counted as part of the basic needs of man, like clothing. If it is rented / hired to others, Zakah is due on whatever rent is derived from it (after a Hijri year has lapsed on it).
- The cattle must attain the Nisab prescribed by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ.