Khums: Assessing Khums on a Home Bought with Unknown or Multi-Year Savings — What’s the Ruling?

Practical Laws of Islam as per the teachings of Imam Khamenei

Khums: Assessing Khums on a Home Bought with Unknown or Multi-Year Savings — What’s the Ruling?

English:

Question #930:

A person intends to assess his assets for the first time in order to pay his khums. What would be the rule in regard to the residential house that he has purchased if he does not know what money he had paid for? And if he knows that he had purchased it with funds saved over several years, what would be the rule?

Answer #930:

If he doubts that he may have bought the house or other necessities of life with the money which was not liable to khums — e.g. inherited or granted money — he is not liable to anything in respect with their khums. In case he is certain that he bought it with his own income but he does know whether he spent the money for the house during the year it is gained or after the khums year had passed and before paying its khums, he would, by caution, make muṣālaḥah with one of our representatives. Again if he well knows that he bought the house with earnings saved for several years and before its khums is paid, he is obligated to pay the khums on the saved earnings and consider the devaluation of money as well.

-Imam Khamenei, Practical Laws of Islam, Importance and Conditions of Khums