Is it required to give the expiation for an oath to ten poor people, and what is its amount?
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The questioner : Is it required to give the expiation for an oath to ten poor people? And what is its amount?
The Shaykh : Yes, it must be for ten poor people, because this is the text of the Qur'an. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:[Al-Ma'idah 5:89] As for the amount of food, if he wants to prepare a meal for lunch or dinner and gathers the ten to have lunch or dinner, that is sufficient. If he does not do that, he gives each poor person one kilogram of rice or other food from the mid-range of what you feed your families, and he includes with it something to make it filling, such as a piece of chicken meat or something else.
So it has two forms. The first form is to gather the poor people for lunch or dinner. The second form is to give each person one kilogram of rice or its equivalent from the mid-range of what they feed their families, and to include with it something filling from meat. Yes.
The questioner : The questioner is your sister in Allah, T.M.T. from the southern region, Subat al-Allaya. She asks, saying that she...
The Shaykh : Yes, it must be for ten poor people, because this is the text of the Qur'an. Allah, Blessed and Exalted is He, said:
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]
فَكَفَّارَتُهُ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَاكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍ فَمَنْ لَمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلاثَةِ أَيَّامٍSo it has two forms. The first form is to gather the poor people for lunch or dinner. The second form is to give each person one kilogram of rice or its equivalent from the mid-range of what they feed their families, and to include with it something filling from meat. Yes.
The questioner : The questioner is your sister in Allah, T.M.T. from the southern region, Subat al-Allaya. She asks, saying that she...