Answered by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani
Deferred Zakat Payment If at the end of the zakat year (2007) one’s projected zakat amount will be for eg. $1000, would it be permissible to pay this zakat in installments during 2007 year – instead of waiting to pay the total $1000 at the end of the year.
Answer:
Walaikum assalam wa rahmatullah,
It is permitted to pay one’s zakat before it is due; (Ibn Abidin, Radd al-Muhtar) and this would be praiseworthy, because it would be considered a way of hastening to fulfill one’s religious duties.
Wassalam,
Faraz Rabbani