Q 3: What is the Nisab (the minimum amount on which Zakah is due) of grains and fruits. What are the conditions of the obligation of Zakah (obligatory charity) on grains? A 3: Zakah is Wajib (obligator)y on all grains like wheat, barley, rice, lentil, chick-peas and other sorts of grains if they are not used as staple food. Zakah is Wajib on all kinds of measurable, weighable and storable dates. Zakah is due on grains and (Part No. 8; Page No. 45

A 3: Zakah is Wajib (obligator)y on all grains like wheat, barley, rice, lentil, chick-peas and other sorts of grains if they are not used as staple food. Zakah is Wajib on all kinds of measurable, weighable and storable dates. Zakah is due on grains and (Part No. 8; Page No. 45) fruits under the following conditions: 1- They must complete the Nisab (the minimum amount on which Zakah is due) of five Wasqs (1 Wasq = 60 Sa`s =130,320 kg) that are 300 Sa` (1 Sa`=3 kg. Approx.) that equal five and one third Iraqi pounds. This is supported by what has been narrated by Abu Sa`id Al-Khudry (may Allah be pleased with him) from the Prophet (be upon him) that he said: No Zakah is due on less than five Wasqs. (Related by the Six Hadith Compilers (Al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Al-Tirmidhy, Al-Nasa'y, and Ibn Majah)) 2- Nisab should be in the possession of the payer at the time of paying Zakah. The amount of Zakah on both grains and fruits is one tenth of what has been irrigated without any effort and one-twentieth of what has been irrigated by machines, and three quarters of one tenth, if they were irrigated by both means equally, if there is a difference in the means of irrigation, the one used most will be the criterion. The passage of a Hawl (one lunar year calculated from the time a property reaches the minimum amount upon which Zakah is due) is not a condition of the obligation of Zakah on both grains and fruits. However, the time of their Zakah is whenever they began to ripen according to what Allah (Exalted be He) says: ...pay the due thereof (its Zakât, according to Allâh’s Orders 1/10th or 1/20th) on the day of its harvest May Allah grant us success. May peace and blessings be upon our Prophet Muhammad, his family, and Companions.