Hiqqa (a camel of four years)

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A hiqqa is a camel that has entered its fourth year, and the female is called hiqqa; the name is taken from its fitness to be ridden and loaded and to be covered by the stallion. ¹ Related terms: ibn makhad and bint makhad (second year), ibn labun and bint labun (third year), and jadha'a and jadhaa (fifth year), the last age of camels counted for zakat. ² The jurists agree that a hiqqa is due for 46 to 60 camels, and two hiqqas for 91 to 120; the mawsu'a grounds this on Anas's narration of the Prophet ﷺ's charity rulings in Sahih al-Bukhari. ² Its rules are treated in the zakat book under camels and in the blood-money articles, where they stiffen or lighten the diya. ²

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
Region: Global / Diaspora
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A hiqqa is a camel that has entered its fourth year, and the female is called hiqqa; the name is taken from its fitness to be ridden and loaded and to be covered by the stallion. ¹ Related terms: ibn makhad and bint makhad (second year), ibn labun and bint labun (third year), and jadha'a and jadhaa (fifth year), the last age of camels counted for zakat. ² The jurists agree that a hiqqa is due for 46 to 60 camels, and two hiqqas for 91 to 120; the mawsu'a grounds this on Anas's narration of the Prophet's charity rulings in Sahih al-Bukhari. ² Its rules are treated in the zakat book under camels and in the blood-money articles, where they stiffen or lighten the diya. ²

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Sources

al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7214
al-Mawsu'a al-Fiqhiyya al-Kuwaitiyya, Noor-Book copy (file named v3) , p.7215

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