The amount of food to be given to a poor person in the expiation for intercourse
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The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, regarding feeding sixty poor people, is it not a quarter of a sa' for each poor person, based on the statement in the hadith that a measure containing fifteen sa' was brought?
The Shaykh:
That is, estimating what is a fixed amount versus what is an estimate.
And the school of thought holds that it is a mudd, that is, a quarter of a sa'. Yes, this is the school of thought: that it is a mudd. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), in the ransom for shaving the head for a person in ihram, Allah the Exalted says:[Al-Baqarah 2:196]. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) specified fasting as three days. And he specified feeding as half a sa' for each poor person.
So some of the scholars relied on this, taking the hadith of the expiation or ransom for shaving the head for a person in ihram, and they generalized it to all expiations. This is the stronger position, and it is what is ruled upon now. The current ruling is that feeding a poor person is half a sa', acting in accordance with this hadith. And the hadith is in the authentic collections, so it is half a sa', which is approximately one and a half kilograms. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success.
The Shaykh:
Yes.
The questioner:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, regarding feeding sixty poor people, is it not a quarter of a sa' for each poor person, based on the statement in the hadith that a measure containing fifteen sa' was brought?
The Shaykh:
That is, estimating what is a fixed amount versus what is an estimate.
And the school of thought holds that it is a mudd, that is, a quarter of a sa'. Yes, this is the school of thought: that it is a mudd. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), in the ransom for shaving the head for a person in ihram, Allah the Exalted says:
And whoever among you is ill or has an ailment of the head [making shaving necessary must offer] a ransom of fasting [three days] or charity or sacrifice
فَمَن كَانَ مِنكُم مَّرِيضًا أَوْ بِهِ أَذًى مِّن رَّأْسِهِ فَفِدْيَةٌ مِّن صِيَامٍ أَوْ صَدَقَةٍ أَوْ نُسُكٍSo some of the scholars relied on this, taking the hadith of the expiation or ransom for shaving the head for a person in ihram, and they generalized it to all expiations. This is the stronger position, and it is what is ruled upon now. The current ruling is that feeding a poor person is half a sa', acting in accordance with this hadith. And the hadith is in the authentic collections, so it is half a sa', which is approximately one and a half kilograms. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 036-تابع كتاب الصيام - 2 - 15-8-22 هـ — archive.org (1:05:37)
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