My children’s wealth does not reach the Nisab individually, but collectively it does, is Zakat due on the collective amount?

Q: My children’s wealth does not reach the Nisab individually, but collectively it does, is Zakat due on the collective amount?

 

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A: Zakat is an individual payment to be paid on one’s own Zakatable assets but according to the Hanafi School the assets of children are not liable to Zakat in any case.

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