Answered by Shaykh Amjad Rasheed
If a person has seen the sunset on the last day of Ramadan in Mecca, and then travels to another city, is obligatory for him to give the zakat al-fitr in Mecca, or can he give it in the city that he traveled to?
What is clear in our school is that it is obligatory for him to pay the zakat al-fitr in the city where it became obligatory on him, and it is not permissible for him to change it to another place. So, in the questioner’s case, it is obligatory for him to pay it in Mecca.
However, there is a strong saying in our school that permits paying the zakat in any city that the zakat-giver wants. So, according to this saying, it is permissible for him to pay it in the city to which he traveled.
Amjad Rasheed
[Translated by Sr. Shazia Ahmad]