The Collector Takes the Average from the Livestock

Question
What does the collector take from the zakat on the livestock, the highest or the average?
Answer
I say, and with God's success: only the middle should be taken: which is the highest of the lowest, and the lowest of the highest. It is said: if there are twenty sheep and twenty goats, the middle should be taken, and to know this, one should determine the middle from the goats and sheep, so a sheep equal to half the value of each one should be taken. Refer to: Ghinayat Dhawi Al-Ahkam 1: 178, and Al-Durr Al-Mukhtar 2: 22, and God knows best.
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