Spending Zakat Money on One’s Own Needs and Making It Good from One’s Salary

Question

(1) In a certain madrasa, the person who collects zakat and sadaqa funds on behalf of the madrasa — given that this collector is needy and is a recipient of zakat — if he spends some money beyond his wage and later makes it up from his own income, how is this: permissible or impermissible? (2) What is the ruling on spending zakat funds on teachers’ salaries without tamlik (transfer of ownership) in a madrasa that has a kitchen (matbakh)?

Answer

(1) The person appointed as collector on behalf of the madrasa is an amin (trustee); all the zakat and sadaqa money he collects is an amana (trust), and he has no right to dispose of it. In such a case the zakat will not be discharged, and it will be necessary for him to give compensation (daman)

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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