Is it permissible to feed ten poor people with a sum of money in the case of the expiation for an oath, and what is the amount? And is it permissible to give it to one family?

Question:
Is it permissible to feed ten poor people with a sum of money in the case of the expiation for an oath? And what is the amount? And is it permissible to give it to one family consisting of twelve poor people? You have guided us, may Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. As for the expiation for an oath, Allah the Exalted mentioned it in His saying: After which it states: "You feed ten poor people, or clothe them, or free a slave. But whoever does not find [any of these], then he must fast for three days." That is the expiation for your oaths when you take them, and keep your oaths. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be grateful. It is made clear in this noble verse that the expiation for an oath consists of three options from which one may choose, and one sequential option. As for the three options, they are feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave, meaning a slave. As for the sequential option, it is fasting, if one does not find any of these three things: feeding, clothing, or freeing. Feeding is done by giving ten poor people, meaning the needy, each of them half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of food, which is approximately one and a half kilograms of the food commonly eaten in the country. Clothing is one garment for each poor person, according to the custom of the country, whether it is a shirt or an izar and a rida, according to the custom of the country. Freeing is done by freeing a believing slave who is free from defects.
As for giving money instead of clothing, or instead of feeding, or instead of freeing, giving money to ten poor people, this is not sufficient, because Allah, Glorified and Exalted is He, only commanded feeding, or clothing, or freeing. So deviating from that by giving money is a contradiction of the text, and contradicting the text is not permissible. And as for if the ten are all in one house, he gives it to them, because the intention is to feed ten poor people, whether they are scattered or gathered in one house.