Is it permissible to give zakat to someone one is customarily committed to supporting, even if one is not religiously obligated to support them?
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The jurists did not mention custom (al-ʿurf) as one of the causes for the obligation of maintenance (). Rather, they made it a standard for estimating maintenance when there is no agreement on its amount. Based on this, there is no impediment to giving to someone whose maintenance is not legally obligatory (due to a Sharʿi reason), because custom is not among the Sharʿi reasons for the obligation of maintenance.
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