The Expiation for Unintentional Killing When One Is Unable to Free a Slave or Fast
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am a man who owes the expiation for unintentional killing. There is no freeing of a slave available now, and I am unable to fast two consecutive months because I have a heart condition. What should I do? May Allah grant you success?
Answer:
There is only fasting; freeing a slave is not available now. There is only fasting. The expiation remains a debt on you. If you are able, you perform it; if you are not able,[Al-Baqarah 2:286]. No, and Allah the Exalted knows best, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and peace.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. I am a man who owes the expiation for unintentional killing. There is no freeing of a slave available now, and I am unable to fast two consecutive months because I have a heart condition. What should I do? May Allah grant you success?
Answer:
There is only fasting; freeing a slave is not available now. There is only fasting. The expiation remains a debt on you. If you are able, you perform it; if you are not able,
Allah does not charge a soul except [with that within] its capacity
لَا يُكَلِّفُ اللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
Source
شرح قرة عيون الموحدين في تحقيق دعوة الأنبياء والمرسلين، باب قول الله - تعالى - : { وَلِلَّهِ الأَسْمَاءُ الْحُسْنَى فَادْعُوهُ بِهَا وَذَرُوا الَّذِينَ يُلْحِدُونَ فِي أَسْمَائِهِ } — islamhouse.com (1:14:34)
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