For how long is a Muslim responsible for providing for his children and paying their zakat?
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If the child is wealthy, their maintenance is waived from their father, even if they are young, and their maintenance and are paid from their own wealth. However, if they have no wealth, then their maintenance is unanimously obligatory upon their father. The maintenance of children is waived from their father if they reach maturity and become capable of earning. As for Zakat al-Fitr, it is obligatory upon the father if the maintenance of his children is obligatory upon him, and it is waived from him if their maintenance is waived due to their wealth or their ability to earn.
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