If one kills someone by mistake and pays the blood money, is it obligatory for him to fast two consecutive months?
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Question:
My brother caused the death of a person and has paid the blood money to his family. Is it obligatory for him to fast two consecutive months? And if it is obligatory, does he fast the two months or sixty days?
Answer:
If the blood money is obligatory upon him, then the expiation is obligatory upon him. If the blood money is obligatory upon him, then the expiation is obligatory upon him without doubt, and it is fasting for two consecutive months. The original ruling was to free a slave, but freeing a slave is not available now; it is difficult. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:[An-Nisa 4:92] and fast for sixty days. Fast for sixty days. The month is thirty days, so he fasts for sixty days, consecutively.
My brother caused the death of a person and has paid the blood money to his family. Is it obligatory for him to fast two consecutive months? And if it is obligatory, does he fast the two months or sixty days?
Answer:
If the blood money is obligatory upon him, then the expiation is obligatory upon him. If the blood money is obligatory upon him, then the expiation is obligatory upon him without doubt, and it is fasting for two consecutive months. The original ruling was to free a slave, but freeing a slave is not available now; it is difficult. And Allah (Exalted and Majestic is He) says:
then [instead], a fast for two months consecutively
فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ شَهْرَيْنِ مُتَتَابِعَيْنِ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، من قتل خطأ ودفع الدية هل يلزمه صيام شهرين متتابعين؟ #فتاوى الفوزان — youtube.com
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