❖ Question:
Is the month of Rajab designated for paying Zakāt?
Source: Fatāwā Amunpuri by Shaykh Ghulam Mustafa Zaheer Amunpuri
✿ Answer:
There is no evidence for declaring the month of Rajab as the specific month for Zakāt.
ʿAllāmah Ibn Rajab رحمه الله (d. 795H) states:
أما الزكاة فقد اعتاد أهل هذه البلاد إخراج الزكاة في شهر رجب، ولا أصل لذلك في السنة، ولا عرف عن أحد من السلف
“As for Zakāt, the people of these lands have made it a habit to pay it in the month of Rajab, but there is no basis for this in the Sunnah, nor is it reported from any of the Salaf.”
(Laṭā’if al-Maʿārif: 120)
Conclusion:Specifying Rajab as the month of Zakāt has no foundation in the Sunnah or the practice of the early generations. Zakāt should be given whenever a person’s one lunar year (ḥawl) is completed, not tied to a particular month like Rajab.
