Chapter on Zakāt of Camels

No zakāt is due on fewer than five head of camels. When they reach five, are pasturing, and a full lunar year has elapsed, the due is one sheep, up to nine. At ten the due becomes two sheep, up to fourteen. At fifteen, three sheep, up to nineteen. At twenty, four sheep, up to twenty-four. At twenty-five the obligation is a bint makhāḍ (a one-year-old she-camel), up to thirty-five. At thirty-six it is a bint labūn (a two-year-old she-camel), up to forty-five. At forty-six a ḥiqqah (a three-year-old she-camel) is due, up to sixty. At sixty-one a jadhʿah (a four-year-old she-camel) is required, up to seventy-five. At seventy-six the due is two banāt labūn (two she-camels in their third year), up to ninety. At ninety-one it is two ḥiqqahs, up to one hundred and twenty.

After that the reckoning starts anew: for an additional five camels one sheep is added to the two ḥiqqahs; for an additional ten, two sheep; for fifteen, three sheep; for twenty, four sheep; for twenty-five, a bint makhāḍ—up to one hundred and fifty, at which point the due is three ḥiqqahs.

The assessment then restarts once more: for an additional five camels one sheep, for ten two sheep, for fifteen three sheep, for twenty four sheep, for twenty-five a bint makhāḍ, and at thirty-six a bint labūn. When the herd reaches one hundred and ninety-six the zakāt is four ḥiqqahs, up to two hundred, after which the scale perpetually renews in the same fashion as it did for the fifty that followed one hundred and fifty.

Bukhṭ (Bactrian) and ʿarāb (Arabian) camels are treated alike in this ruling.