Expiation for an Oath and the Estimated Amount for Feeding the Poor
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The questioner:
Umm Abd al-Rahman, from al-Wajh, says in her first question: What is the expiation for an oath? And if it is feeding a poor person, what is the estimated amount in kilograms?
The Shaykh:
The expiation for an oath, as Allah the Exalted mentioned, consists of four things: three are options and the fourth is sequential. The three options are feeding ten poor people, clothing them, or freeing a slave. One chooses among these three things. If he does not find the means, then he fasts for three days. The three days are not accepted except after the inability to feed or clothe. Yes.
The presenter:
And we raise it.
The Shaykh:
Or what is given to each poor person is one and a half kilograms of food, so the share for the ten is fifteen kilograms, divided among ten people, with one and a half kilograms for each of them.
Umm Abd al-Rahman, from al-Wajh, says in her first question: What is the expiation for an oath? And if it is feeding a poor person, what is the estimated amount in kilograms?
The Shaykh:
The expiation for an oath, as Allah the Exalted mentioned, consists of four things: three are options and the fourth is sequential. The three options are feeding ten poor people, clothing them, or freeing a slave. One chooses among these three things. If he does not find the means, then he fasts for three days. The three days are not accepted except after the inability to feed or clothe. Yes.
The presenter:
And we raise it.
The Shaykh:
Or what is given to each poor person is one and a half kilograms of food, so the share for the ten is fifteen kilograms, divided among ten people, with one and a half kilograms for each of them.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، ما كفارة الحلف؟ وما مقدار إطعام عشرة مساكين بالكيلوات؟ الشيخ صالح بن فوزان الفوزان — youtube.com
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