Zakat in individual amounts will
    not reach the level of nisaab
Question

                I put some money in my young
      children’s name into shares of an investment company. Should I put it all together
      when calculating zakaat, or should I work it out individually, knowing that if I do not
      put it all together, the individual amounts will not reach the level of nisaab?
Praise be to Allah.We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen
    (may Allaah preserve him) and he answered as follows: “Every person has his own
    money, so if it reaches the level of nisaab, he should pay zakaat, otherwise he should
    not. But does he have other children to whom he has given the same? If he has other
    children then let him fear Allaah and treat them fairly, “to the male, a portion
    equal to that of two females” [al-Nisa’ 4:11 – interpretation of the
    meaning]. If he does not have other children, then the matter is clear. If he has
    other children and he gives them the same as he has given to these, then he has treated
    them fairly and he does not have to do anything more… And Allaah knows best.”