Zakat on the produce of orchards and land

Question

Zayd was the landlord or cultivator of one hundred and fifty bighas (a local unit of land area). After the land revenue and the necessary yearly household expenses, grain worth thousands was left over with him; and in the same way, with slight variation, there is a surplus every year. He does not sell the grain either; and when he sometimes sells it for household needs, it is only as much as is needed, so that after these sales he holds old grain accumulated over years worth many a nisab.

Answer

Zakat is not fard on grain that is not for trade, whatever its quantity. The same is the case with land, fields and orchards. However, ‘ushr (the tithe) will be wajib on the produce of the land and the orchard if it is ‘ushri; and in this the value is not taken into account — rather, the ‘ushr of the entire produce becomes wajib, however much the produce and whatever its value…

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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