What is the ruling on the expiation for accidental killing?

Question:
Your Eminence the Shaykh! The questioner says: I owe the expiation for accidental killing. So, do I give you the value of freeing a slave, and how much is it?

Answer:
There is no slave market from which to buy one. We used to find some in our council a few years ago, up until recently, but then the state prohibited it. The state has stopped its tongue, and I believe there is no one who wants to have one, and I do not know of any place now where there are slaves. However, one fasts, meaning the expiation for zihar or for breaking the fast in Ramadan, by fasting two consecutive months, sixty days. If he is unable to fast, he feeds sixty poor people, if it is zihar regarding the prohibition of the wife, or for breaking the fast in Ramadan. If he is unable to fast, he feeds sixty poor people. That is thirty sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), with each sa' divided between two people. The measure of a sa' is three kilograms. Some say one and a half kilograms, due to the smallness of the measure, of dates, wheat, or barley. As for accidental killing, there is only freeing a slave, then fasting. If freeing a slave is not available, as is known, it is only fasting for the one who killed by accident or by mistake, which is fasting two consecutive months. Yes.