The ruling on the expiation for swearing an oath that a person will do something, when he does not do it

Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. If I swear that a person will do such and such, and I swear that a person will do something but he does not do it, is the expiation obligatory on me? Who fulfills the oath? It is a written one, of course, like standing up and going out. I stand up, and the oath and the fasting come together. Is it to cover the shin? An apparent oath. Or a waiting period, either way. If I swear that a person will do something but he does not do it, is the expiation obligatory on me?

Answer:
Yes, the expiation is obligatory on you. If you swear that a person will do something and he does not do it, the expiation becomes obligatory on you, except for what Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah mentioned: if you intended to honor him and you said, “By Allah, you will enter my home,” or “By Allah, you will eat from my food,” and he did not do it, then you do not break your oath, because the honor has been achieved. The honor has been achieved, and that is that you offered him this thing and committed to it. The honor has been achieved. So the Shaykh holds that there is no expiation in this case; he does not break the oath. As for anything other than that, he breaks the oath. Yes.