Ref. No. 1223
A scholar states the following:-
Zakaah can be collected only by islami state. In absence of Islamic state, responsibility of paying zakaah cannot be discharged in any way. So now-a days, in anyone pays Zakaah, he will get the sawab of Sadaqah only, not of Zakaah. Nay, the present Zakaah collecting authorities are bogus as they have no right to do it. He narrates the following Hadith in support of his saying -
مسلم بن يسار قال: كان أبو عبد الله رجل من الصحابة يقول: الزكاة والحدود والفيء والجمعة إلى السلطان
Muslim ibn Yasār said: Abū ‘Abdillāh, a man from the Sahābah, would say: Zakāt, Hudūd, Fay’ (spoils) and Jumu‘ah are (consigned) to the Sultān.Please Judge his saying as per Shariah