The ruling on swearing an oath regarding a person with the intention of honoring him

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. There is a statement by Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him), which is that if one swears an oath regarding a person with the intention of honoring him, he does not break his oath in any case, unless he intended to compel him. This is the end of his statement.

Answer:
Yes, this is found in al-Ikhtiyarat. It is found in al-Ikhtiyarat that if one swears an oath regarding a person with the intention of honoring him, and the person about whom the oath was sworn goes against it, he does not incur a loss because the honor has been achieved. If I say, “By Allah, you enter and eat,” and he does not enter, but your intention was to honor him, the honor has been achieved by your saying, “Enter and eat.” This is the intention of the Shaykh (may Allah have mercy on him). However, the majority say no; they say that he breaks his oath in this case. If the person about whom the oath was sworn does not do what was requested of him, he breaks his oath, because that is the apparent meaning of the evidence.