Expiation for an Oath
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The questioner:
Please, Abu Khalid, come on the line. Yes. Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. And upon you be peace and Allah’s mercy. And upon you be peace. May Allah love you, O Shaykh. By Allah, I love you all, O scholars, generally. May Allah reward you with good. Your question, Abu Khalid. Welcome. The first question: When I was young, I swore many large oaths, some true and some false, and I want to expiate for these oaths. How do I do that? Well, I don’t know anything. Listen to the answer, Abu Khalid, wait a moment. Okay.
The Shaykh:
My brother, we do not know what the oaths are, what they are about, or what he swore about. If it is about quarreling, give me the thing behind you, and I say, “By Allah, I did not bring it,” and I go to get it, and he says, “By Allah, you did such and such,” and I say, “No, I did not do it,” and I did do it. Whatever you remember from your oaths that you swore about, whether you did not do it or you did do it, you expiate for it by feeding ten poor people, or clothing ten poor people, or freeing a slave. If you do not find the means to do so, you fast three days for every oath you swore that you would not do or that you would do that thing.
The questioner:
And he said to me, “I do not know anything of it that is known. How do I do it?”
The Shaykh:
If you do not know anything, you owe nothing. Yes.
Please, Abu Khalid, come on the line. Yes. Peace be upon you, and Allah’s mercy and blessings. And upon you be peace and Allah’s mercy. And upon you be peace. May Allah love you, O Shaykh. By Allah, I love you all, O scholars, generally. May Allah reward you with good. Your question, Abu Khalid. Welcome. The first question: When I was young, I swore many large oaths, some true and some false, and I want to expiate for these oaths. How do I do that? Well, I don’t know anything. Listen to the answer, Abu Khalid, wait a moment. Okay.
The Shaykh:
My brother, we do not know what the oaths are, what they are about, or what he swore about. If it is about quarreling, give me the thing behind you, and I say, “By Allah, I did not bring it,” and I go to get it, and he says, “By Allah, you did such and such,” and I say, “No, I did not do it,” and I did do it. Whatever you remember from your oaths that you swore about, whether you did not do it or you did do it, you expiate for it by feeding ten poor people, or clothing ten poor people, or freeing a slave. If you do not find the means to do so, you fast three days for every oath you swore that you would not do or that you would do that thing.
The questioner:
And he said to me, “I do not know anything of it that is known. How do I do it?”
The Shaykh:
If you do not know anything, you owe nothing. Yes.
Source
تكرار الأيمان. — af.org.sa
The Arabic text is a machine transcription of the audio recording.