Zakat On Rent And Business Income
By businesses were common i mean trade business were common. Ok i understand that production businesses were not common during that time and hence on production business there should be zakat. but what about rent? rental income was common, prophet (pbuh) himself rented his land, in muwatta of imam malik also its mentioned Malik said, “What we are agreed upon (here in Madina) regarding income from hiring out slaves, rent from property, and the sums received when a slave buys his freedom, is that no zakat is due on any of it, whether great or small, from the day the owner takes possession of it until a year has elapsed over it from the day when the owner takes possession of it.” So by this we can understand that rent on property existed during that time, however prophet did not take any zakat on them. So how come in ghamidi sahab’s zakat calculator they are asking for rental income as well and telling that zakat on rental income is 10%.