Expiation for an Oath and Feeding the Fasting
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The questioner : The questioner says: Honorable Shaykh, is it permissible to feed ten fasting people from those whom the Office for the Awareness of Expatriate Communities feeds, instead of providing food, and what is the amount of the expiation for an oath?
The Shaykh : The amount of the expiation for an oath is feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave, and these three are options to choose from[Al-Ma'idah 5:89] consecutively. As for whether breaking the fast of those who are fasting is sufficient for it? We say to the questioner: Break the fast of the fasting people so that you may receive their reward, and feed them dinner as the expiation for the oath. So, breaking their fast is the first thing they eat after sunset, and this counts as charity, and the dinner that is after Maghrib counts as the food for ten poor people for the oath.
The questioner : He says: I will pay it to the Awareness of Expatriate Communities.
The Shaykh : Whether it is for the Awareness of Expatriate Communities or others, but you must inform the ones you pay it to that it is an expiation for an oath, so that they feed ten, not fewer than ten.
The Shaykh : The amount of the expiation for an oath is feeding ten poor people, or clothing them, or freeing a slave, and these three are options to choose from
But whoever cannot find [or afford it] - then a fast of three days [is required].
فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلَاثَةِ أَيَّامٍThe questioner : He says: I will pay it to the Awareness of Expatriate Communities.
The Shaykh : Whether it is for the Awareness of Expatriate Communities or others, but you must inform the ones you pay it to that it is an expiation for an oath, so that they feed ten, not fewer than ten.
Source
اللقاءات الرمضانية لعام 1416هـ - 2 — binothaimeen.net (52:20)
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