Expiation for freeing a slave and contributing to the blood money of an intentional killer
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I have an expiation that requires freeing a slave or fasting two consecutive months. His question is: Is it permissible to contribute to the freeing of a slave who has intentionally killed another person, when the victim's family is demanding a sum of money, and I contribute to that amount?
Answer:
Freeing, my brother, means freeing a slave, a slave who is owned, by granting him his freedom. That is the freeing. As for you paying off his debt, that is not freeing. That is a good deed and it carries reward, but it is not freeing. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. This questioner says: I have an expiation that requires freeing a slave or fasting two consecutive months. His question is: Is it permissible to contribute to the freeing of a slave who has intentionally killed another person, when the victim's family is demanding a sum of money, and I contribute to that amount?
Answer:
Freeing, my brother, means freeing a slave, a slave who is owned, by granting him his freedom. That is the freeing. As for you paying off his debt, that is not freeing. That is a good deed and it carries reward, but it is not freeing. Yes.
Source
إغاثة اللهفان من مصائد الشيطان-12-02-1440هـ — alfawzan.live (1:10:09)
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