Who Should Pay Fitrana (صدقة الفطر)
“One form of zakah is the sadaqah of fitr. It is the food of a person that he consumes in a day and is obligatory on every person whether young or old, and is given at the end of Ramadan before the ‘id prayer is offered. As per a narrative of Ibn ‘Abbas (rta), the purpose of the Prophet (sws) in making this mandatory for every Muslim was to cleanse the fasts from the effects of lewd and nonsensical talk and to provide food to the poor on ‘id day. (Abu Da’ud, Sunan, vol. 2, 114, (no. 1609); Ibn Majah, Sunan, vol. 2, 403, (no. 1827).