reaches the zakat threshold, zakat becomes due, and the amount due is taken proportionately from each.

The same applies to pulses: chickpeas, broad beans, lentils and similar crops constitute a single category according to him. The rate collected depends on the labour and expense involved, as stated in the hadith:

“On crops irrigated by rainwater, rivers or springs, one-tenth is due. On crops irrigated by drawing water, by water-drawing camels or by waterwheels—these are names for the same thing; sāniya and nādih refer to camels used to draw drinking water—half of one-tenth is due. Where half is irrigated by one method and half by the other, or each method is used for half the year, three-quarters of one-tenth is due.”

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Whoever owns a crop as it grows must pay its zakat. Allah Most High says:

“O you who believe, spend from the good things you have earned and from what We have brought forth for you from the earth. Do not deliberately select inferior things to give, when you yourselves would not accept them.”

To the end of the verse.

This applies whether he owns the land, rents it, has been granted its use by the ruler to benefit from its yield, borrows it, or holds it as the beneficiary of an endowment.

Ibn al-Mundhir said:

“All the scholars whose views I have recorded agree that any land whose inhabitants embraced Islam before being subdued remains theirs, and that they must pay zakat on what they grow there.”

Land held under a peace treaty is thus as he described. The same applies to land conquered by force if