The Condition of Ten Poor Persons in the Expiation for an Oath
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Question:
The questioner: Your Eminence, we received a letter from a school with a set of questions. It says: Your Eminence, I took an oath and I want to expiate it. Does the number of individuals have to be ten, or is it sufficient if the food is enough for ten, even if the number of individuals is less than ten? Is that acceptable?
Answer:
The Shaykh: No, they must be ten; because Allah said: [Al-Ma'idah: 89] They must be ten, each one receiving half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), or you feed them dinner, or you feed ten of them breakfast. You do not repeat it for one or two; no, it must be ten. This is different from that. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah preserve you.
The questioner: Your Eminence, we received a letter from a school with a set of questions. It says: Your Eminence, I took an oath and I want to expiate it. Does the number of individuals have to be ten, or is it sufficient if the food is enough for ten, even if the number of individuals is less than ten? Is that acceptable?
Answer:
The Shaykh: No, they must be ten; because Allah said:
the feeding of ten needy people
إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَاكِينَThe presenter: May Allah preserve you.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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