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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Expiation for one who swore to a person to do something and did not do it

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Question:
May Allah reward you with good and do you good. A listener sent a question, saying: Jamal Khalil Allah Ahmad from Sudan. I made my brother in Allah swear to do something for me, and he did not do it. Do I have to fast three days in that case? Or what should I do? May Allah reward you with good.

Answer:
And regarding his statement "I made him swear," is the meaning that he swore to his brother to do a deed and he did not do it? If that is the case, then the expiation is obligatory upon him; because he swore to a person to do something and he did not do it, so the expiation is obligatory upon him; due to the presence of the oath in his yamin (oath). It is freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, or clothing them. If he does not find the means, then he fasts three days. But if his intention by saying "I made him swear" was that he asked the other person to swear, then he owes nothing, and the oath is only upon the one who swore. Yes.
Source قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 4159- كفارة من حلف على شخص بفعل شيء ما ولم يفعل - الشيخ صالح الفوزان — youtube.com

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