5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

Hanbalî. As one person’s fitra can be given to one or more poor
people, so one poor person can be given the fitras of several
people. If a small child or an insane person has property, his
fitra is also given out of his property. If their guardian does not
give it, the child gives his past fitra when he grows up and the
insane person gives his when he recovers. If a child below the
age of puberty does not have property, its father gives its fitra
together with his own fitra. That is, he gives it if he is rich. He
does not have to give the fitra for his wife or older children. But
he attains blessings if he gives it.
It is written in Durr-ul-mukhtâr and Radd-ul-muhtâr, “If a
person gives the fitra for someone else out of his own property,
it becomes permissible if the latter has commanded it in
advance. If he has not given it with the latter’s command, it
does not become permissible even if he consents afterwards. If
he has given it out of the latter’s property, it becomes
permissible when the latter gives the consent (afterwards). A
man can give the fitras of the people he is supporting in his
home without their advice. If one commands one’s wife [or
someone else] to give one’s fitra, too, and if she (or he) mixes
her (or his) wheat with one’s wheat without one’s permission
and gives the mixture to the poor, she (or he) will have given
only her (or his) fitra. For, according to Imâm-i-a’zam she (or
he) will have used the wheat by mixing the two amounts of
wheat with each other, and thus the wheat will become her (or
his) property. But it does not become her (or his) property
according to the two imâms. If she (or he) has mixed them with
one’s permission, one’s fitra also will have been given
according to Imâm-i-a’zam, too (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaihim
ajma’în). If the act were done the other way, the wife’s fitra
would have been given, too. For it is permissible for the
husband to give the wife’s fitra as a kindness out of his own
property without her permission. He can either mix the fitras of
his wife and other household and give them without their
permission, or weigh the wheat or gold equal to their total at
once and give it to one or more poor people. But it is
circumspect to prepare them separately and then mix them or
give them separately.”
If one loses one’s property after having had the amount of
nisâb, that is, after fitra and Qurbân having become wâjib and
hajj having become fard, one is not absolved from them. But
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