How is the Zakat on sheep calculated and paid for numbers ranging from 201 to 399, with a detailed explanation of the calculation?
Al-Waqṣ refers to the interval between two obligatory thresholds for livestock. For example, if the obligatory zakat on sheep is one ewe when they reach forty, and if they increase beyond that to one hundred and twenty, only one ewe is due. The increase from forty to one hundred and twenty is considered waqṣ.
The jurists have agreed that there is no zakat on the waqṣ of sheep, unlike Abu Hanifa, who mandated zakat on the waqṣ of camels and cattle through calculation. This is supported by what was stated in the letter of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him, which clarified the obligatory zakat amounts, where it says: "And regarding the sadaqa of pasturing sheep, if they are forty up to one hundred and twenty, there is one ewe. If they exceed one hundred and twenty up to two hundred, there are two ewes. If they exceed two hundred up to three hundred, there are three ewes. If they exceed three hundred, then for every hundred, there is one ewe." This is the consensus, and that what lies between two thresholds is exempt and nothing is due on it.
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