Types of Fidyah: Choice and Specification
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Question:
Your Excellency the Shaykh, and may Allah reward you. Recently, it is often said in Hajj fatwas that whoever commits a specific prohibited act owes a fidyah, and sometimes it is said that it is a matter of choice or sequence. We hope for a clarification of the difference between the types of fidyah?
Answer:
The fidyah is of two types. One type is a matter of choice, such as shaving the head of a person in ihram, or taking hair from his head while he is in ihram, or wearing sewn clothing, or trimming some of the nails. In these cases, one has the choice between fasting for three days, feeding six poor people, or slaughtering a sheep. Allah the Exalted said:[Al-Baqarah 2:196] The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) clarified that the fasting is for three days, the charity is feeding six poor people, with half a sa' of food for each poor person, and the sacrifice is the slaughtered animal, in which one has the choice. As for the remaining prohibited acts, their fidyah is specified as slaughtering. So whoever cannot do so, he fasts for ten days. Yes.
Your Excellency the Shaykh, and may Allah reward you. Recently, it is often said in Hajj fatwas that whoever commits a specific prohibited act owes a fidyah, and sometimes it is said that it is a matter of choice or sequence. We hope for a clarification of the difference between the types of fidyah?
Answer:
The fidyah is of two types. One type is a matter of choice, such as shaving the head of a person in ihram, or taking hair from his head while he is in ihram, or wearing sewn clothing, or trimming some of the nails. In these cases, one has the choice between fasting for three days, feeding six poor people, or slaughtering a sheep. Allah the Exalted said:
And do not shave your heads until the sacrificial animal has reached its place of slaughter. And whoever among you is ill or has an ailment of the head [making shaving necessary must offer] a ransom of fasting [three days] or charity or sacrifice.
وَلَا تَحْلِقُوا رُءُوسَكُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَبْلُغَ الْهَدْيُ مَحِلَّهُ فَمَن كَانَ مِنكُم مَّرِيضًا أَوْ بِهِ أَذًى مِّن رَّأْسِهِ فَفِدْيَةٌ مِّن صِيَامٍ أَوْ صَدَقَةٍ أَوْ نُسُكٍ
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، 3 من 5/مظاهر الاتباع والابتداع في الحج/شروط الحج/صالح الفوزان/الفقه/كبار العلماء — youtube.com (12:13)
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