Expiation for Zihar
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The listener is Shaykhun Hanafi, a Muslim of Egyptian nationality working in the Kingdom in Jeddah. He sent a message to the program saying: A gold chain was stolen from me at home, and I swore to my wife with divorce, saying to her: “You are forbidden to me if the chain is not found.” Then I learned that she was innocent and that a thief was the one who stole the chain. I ask for your guidance, may Allah reward you with good, regarding what came from me?
Answer: This requires detailed explanation:
In truth, you were hasty, but this requires detailed explanation: If you intended that she is forbidden to you even if she did not have the chain, and that if she does not produce the chain she is forbidden to you because you suspected she had it and that she betrayed you in it, then if you were certain of this and that she is forbidden to you unless she delivers the chain, its ruling is the ruling of zihar, and upon you is the expiation for zihar. This is freeing a believing slave, male or female. If you do not find one, you fast for two consecutive months. If you are unable to do that, you feed sixty poor people, giving each poor person half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of the staple food of the country, such as dates, rice, or something else, before you touch her, before you have intercourse with her. This is what is obligatory upon you, because this falls under the ruling of zihar.
As for if you did not intend to forbid her, but rather intended to encourage her to explain and clarify, and that you accused her of this but wanted from this statement to urge her to explain and return the chain, and did not intend to forbid her, but intended to frighten her or warn her from concealing it, and urge her to explain, then its ruling is the ruling of an oath, and upon you is the expiation for an oath, which is sufficient. This is feeding ten poor people, giving each poor person half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of the staple food of the country, such as dates, rice, wheat, or something else, or clothing them with what is sufficient for them in prayer, such as a shirt, a lower garment, and a cloak, or freeing a believing male or female slave. This is the expiation. This is the expiation for zihar. If the one who swore is unable to perform this expiation and has no capacity, he fasts for three days.
And I ask Allah for guidance for us and for you. Yes.
Answer: This requires detailed explanation:
In truth, you were hasty, but this requires detailed explanation: If you intended that she is forbidden to you even if she did not have the chain, and that if she does not produce the chain she is forbidden to you because you suspected she had it and that she betrayed you in it, then if you were certain of this and that she is forbidden to you unless she delivers the chain, its ruling is the ruling of zihar, and upon you is the expiation for zihar. This is freeing a believing slave, male or female. If you do not find one, you fast for two consecutive months. If you are unable to do that, you feed sixty poor people, giving each poor person half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of the staple food of the country, such as dates, rice, or something else, before you touch her, before you have intercourse with her. This is what is obligatory upon you, because this falls under the ruling of zihar.
As for if you did not intend to forbid her, but rather intended to encourage her to explain and clarify, and that you accused her of this but wanted from this statement to urge her to explain and return the chain, and did not intend to forbid her, but intended to frighten her or warn her from concealing it, and urge her to explain, then its ruling is the ruling of an oath, and upon you is the expiation for an oath, which is sufficient. This is feeding ten poor people, giving each poor person half a sa' (a dry measure of about 3 kg) of the staple food of the country, such as dates, rice, wheat, or something else, or clothing them with what is sufficient for them in prayer, such as a shirt, a lower garment, and a cloak, or freeing a believing male or female slave. This is the expiation. This is the expiation for zihar. If the one who swore is unable to perform this expiation and has no capacity, he fasts for three days.
And I ask Allah for guidance for us and for you. Yes.
Source
binbaz.org.sa
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