What is the ruling on paying Zakat with an estimated amount exceeding the nisab, in the event of not remembering when the nisab was reached and the amount upon which a full year has passed?
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on money is not obligatory unless a full lunar year has passed since it reached the (the minimum threshold). The questioner is obliged to hasten in paying it immediately after the year has passed. One should pay what brings certainty or a strong presumption of clearing one's liability, along with repenting for delaying the Zakat.
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