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There is disagreement over whether an endowment for the offspring of so-and-so is to be treated as an endowment for individually specified beneficiaries. Two positions on this may be inferred from al-Mudawwana, in its discussion of bequests and elsewhere.
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As for property whose corpus is subject to zakat but whose yield is subject to it only under the conditions governing zakat on newly acquired wealth, this comprises livestock—camels, cattle, and sheep and goats—and monetary wealth in the form of dinars, dirhams, and unminted gold and silver.
If such property is endowed so that its yield may be used for a charitable purpose, there is no disagreement that zakat is due on all of it annually, assessed as the endower’s property, whether it is endowed for individually specified beneficiaries or for the poor and wayfarers.
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The ruling on zakat on the offspring of this endowed livestock, if it has been endowed for the benefit of its offspring and yield, is the same as that governing zakat on the fruit of endowed orchards. The offspring are assessed for zakat together with their mothers, following the mothers’ annual zakat cycle and being treated as the endower’s property, without disagreement, if the beneficiaries are not individually specified. The same applies when the beneficiaries are individually specified, according to al-Mudawwana. According to Ibn al-Mawwāz’s book, however, zakat on the offspring is assessed as the beneficiaries’ property once a year has elapsed from birth over what each beneficiary holds, provided it reaches the minimum threshold.
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There is disagreement concerning livestock consisting of camels and cattle, and monetary wealth consisting of dinars and dirhams, endowed for distribution among the poor and wayfarers rather than for benefiting from their yield, when a year elapses before they are distributed. Al-Mudawwana states that no zakat is due on any of this, because it is to be distributed rather than retained. No answer is given there concerning property intended for distribution among individually specified beneficiaries. The implication of Ibn al-Qāsim’s position on this matter is that no zakat is due on the dinars, whether they are to be distributed among the poor or among individually specified beneficiaries. The same view appears in the book of Ibn