Distributing clothes as expiation for a false oath
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: We have an excess of clothes, and my wife sends them to her mother to distribute among the poor. My wife has an expiation for a false oath that she owes. Can these clothes that we distribute serve as the expiation?
Answer:
No. For the expiation of a false oath, the one who swore must intend it as the expiation. The expiation of a false oath is freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, or clothing them. One has the choice among these: freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, or clothing them. If he is unable to do any one of them, he must fast[Al-Ma'idah 5:89]. Yes.
Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success. A questioner says: We have an excess of clothes, and my wife sends them to her mother to distribute among the poor. My wife has an expiation for a false oath that she owes. Can these clothes that we distribute serve as the expiation?
Answer:
No. For the expiation of a false oath, the one who swore must intend it as the expiation. The expiation of a false oath is freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, or clothing them. One has the choice among these: freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, or clothing them. If he is unable to do any one of them, he must fast
three days [is required]. That is the expiation for oaths when you have sworn
ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ ذَٰلِكَ كَفَّارَةُ أَيْمَانِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ
Source
شرح كتاب المنتقى من أخبار المصطفى صلى الله عليه وسلم، بداية من باب الصلح عن دم العمد بأكثر من الدية وأقل — islamhouse.com (1:14:38)
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