
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
debt is owned by the lender. However, regarding to whether the lender to pay zakat money given to them that some chelovku in debt, and who are not in his possession, legal scholars have different opinions:
Ibn Umar, Aisha and Ikrimah freedman Ibn Abbas yes Allah be pleased with them, believed that with the money transferred to thedebtis not paid zakat. They explained this by saying that thistheir is notproperty is multiplied, and it is like the property for personal use.
Majority of jurists thus clarified the question.