The Amount of Food and Clothing in the Expiation for an Oath
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Question:
The questioner says: From Algeria, he says: You know that the expiation for an oath is: either feeding, or clothing, or after that, fasting. What is the amount of food and clothing currently, O Shaykh?
Answer:
Allah says (Glorified and Exalted is He) : [Al-Ma'idah: 89] Thus said the Exalted in Surat al-Ma'idah. The feeding is half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg), one and a half kilograms of the staple food of the country, from dates, or rice, or wheat. Half a sa' of the staple food of the country. This is the stronger position. Some said: a mudd (a quarter of a sa') of wheat, and half a sa' of anything else. But the stronger position is half a sa' of all staple foods, half a sa' of the staple food of the country, from dates, or rice, or wheat, or corn, or otherwise.
And the clothing: what suffices for prayer; either an izar and a rida, or a shirt. Or freeing a slave; a male or female slave. So whoever is unable to do all of this; he fasts three days. And it is better that they be consecutive. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you and bless you, may the Shaykh be respected.
The questioner says: From Algeria, he says: You know that the expiation for an oath is: either feeding, or clothing, or after that, fasting. What is the amount of food and clothing currently, O Shaykh?
Answer:
Allah says (Glorified and Exalted is He) :
Allah will not impose blame upon you for what is meaningless in your oaths, but He will impose blame upon you for [breaking] what you intended of oaths. So its expiation is the feeding of ten needy people from the average of that which you feed your [own] families or clothing them or the freeing of a slave. But whoever cannot find [or afford it] - then a fast of three days [is required]. That is the expiation for oaths when you have sworn. But guard your oaths. Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you may be grateful.
لا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ اللَّهُ بِاللَّغْوِ فِي أَيْمَانِكُمْ وَلَكِنْ يُؤَاخِذُكُمْ بِمَا عَقَّدْتُمُ الأَيْمَانَ فَكَفَّارَتُهُ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَاكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ فَمَنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلاثَةِ أَيَّامٍ ذَلِكَ كَفَّارَةُ أَيْمَانِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ وَاحْفَظُوا أَيْمَانَكُمْ كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَAnd the clothing: what suffices for prayer; either an izar and a rida, or a shirt. Or freeing a slave; a male or female slave. So whoever is unable to do all of this; he fasts three days. And it is better that they be consecutive. Yes.
The presenter: May Allah reward you and bless you, may the Shaykh be respected.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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