Goods of trade (urud) and zakat on them

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In the lexicon, urud is the plural of ard, and one sense of ard is goods. Abu Ubayd defined urud as merchandise that is not measured by volume or weight and is neither an animal nor real estate ¹. As a technical term, ard is all property other than the currencies, of every kind: plants, animals, real estate and other property ¹. The jurists hold that zakat is due on goods of trade when its conditions are met, relying on the Qur'an, on prophetic reports and on the reasoning that goods held for gain are, like livestock and the two precious metals, prepared for growth ^{1 2}. The detailed rules are treated under «zakat» ².