If it was Revealed that a Person who has Taken the Fitra is not Poor
Issue No. 1716- If a person gives fiṭrah to a person under the impression that he is poor and it transpires later that he was not poor and if the property, which he gave him, has not perished, he should take it back from him, and give it to a person who is entitled to receive fiṭrah. If he does not take it back from him, he should give fiṭrah out of his own property. In case, it has perished and the person who took the fiṭrah knew that what he had taken was fiṭrah he should give its substitute, and if he did not know, it is not obligatory on him to give substitute. In case however, the person who gave fiṭrah did not fail in investigating the situation of the poor person, he will not be under any obligation either.
