half a sheep. If the first [seller] paid the zakat from [property] other than the [sheep] themselves, and we say that the zakat is attached to the liability (dhimma), the buyer is obligated to pay half a sheep. If we say it is attached to the asset (ayn), the Qadi said: Half a sheep is also due, because the attachment of zakat to the asset does not mean that the poor have come to own a portion of the nisab, but rather that their right is attached to it, like the attachment of the compensation for an injury (arsh al-jinaya) to the perpetrator, so it does not prevent the obligation of zakat. Abu al-Khattab said: There is nothing upon the buyer, because the attachment of zakat to the asset diminished the nisab. This is the correct view, for the benefit of our statement that zakat attaches to the asset only becomes apparent in preventing [the obligation of] zakat, and the Qadi has mentioned this in a place other than this. By analogy to this, if two men had a nisab of mixed property, and one of them sold his share to a joint-owner (khalit) during part of the year, it is the reverse of the first issue in form, but the same in meaning; because in the first [case], he was a joint-owner with himself, then became a joint-owner with a stranger, whereas here, he was a joint-owner with a stranger, then became a joint-owner with himself. Similarly, if two men were heirs, and they had a nisab of mixed property, and one of them died during part of the year, and his companion inherited from him, then by analogy to the opinion of Abu Bakr, nothing is due upon him until the year is completed for both properties from the time he took ownership of them, unless one of them alone reaches a nisab. By analogy to the opinion of Ibn Hamid, zakat is due on the half that he already possessed exclusively.

Section: If he hires a worker to herd for him in exchange for a specific sheep from the nisab, and the year passes without him setting it aside, they are both joint-owners and the zakat of mixing is due upon them. If he sets it aside before the year [ends], there is nothing upon either of them due to the decrease of the nisab. If he hires him for a sheep described in the liability, it is also valid. If the year passes and he has nothing to fulfill it with other than the nisab, it is built upon the [ruling regarding] debt: Does it prevent zakat in apparent wealth? We shall mention this later, if Allah the Exalted wills.

413 - Issue: He said: (And they shall demand from one another according to the proportions)

We have mentioned that the charity is taken from the properties of joint-owners just as it is taken from the property of a single person. The outward meaning of Ahmad's words is that the collector (sa'i) takes the obligatory amount from the property of whichever of the two joint-owners he wishes, whether