مسائل المنتخبه (Articles Of Islamic Acts) - الخوئي، السيد أبوالقاسم - الصفحة ٤١٦ - MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS RELATING TO ZAKAT

ZAKATUL FITR
١٩٩٩. If, at the time of sunset on Eidul fitr night (i.e. the night preceding Eid day), a person is adult and sane and is neither unconscious, nor indigent, nor theslave of another, he should give, to a deserving person, on his own account as well as on account of all those who take their meals at his house, about three kilos per headof wheat or barley or palm-dates or raisins or rice or millet etc. It is also sufficient if he pays the price of one of these food-stuffs in cash.
٢٠٠٠. If a person is not in a position to meet his own expenses as well as those of his family for a period of one year, and has also no occupation by means ofwhich he can meet these expenses, he is an indigent person, and it is not obligatory on him to pay Zakatul fitr.
٢٠٠١. One should pay Fitra (Zakatul fitr) on account of all those persons, who are treated to be having their meals at his house on the evening of Eidul fitr night,whether they be young or old, Muslims or unbelievers; and it is also immaterial whether or not it is obligatory on him to meet their expenses and also whether they are in hisown town or in some other town.
٢٠٠٢. If a person makes a man, who takes his meals at his house and is in another town, his agent to pay his own fitra out of his (the house-owners) property andis satisfied that he will pay the fitra it is not necessary for the house owner to pay the mans firm himself.
٢٠٠٣. It is obligatory for a person to pay the fitra of a guest who comes to his house before sunset on Eidul fitr night with his consent and is considered to beone who takes his meals at his house.
٢٠٠٤. It is difficult to say that it is obligatory on a person to pay the fitra of a guest who comes to his house on the night of Eidul fitr before sunset withouthis consent, and stays there for some time, and, although apparently it is not obligatory, it is