Chapter: Neither an old, nor a defective animal, nor a male-goat may be taken as Zakat

Hadith Number 1455

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Narrated Anas

Abu Bakr wrote to me what Allah had ordered His Apostle (about Zakat) which goes: Neither an old nor a defected animal, nor a male-goat may be taken as Zakat except if the Zakat collector wishes (to take it).