Is My Kaffara Valid Despite Not Specifying Which Oaths I Was Paying For?
Hanafi Fiqh
Answered by Mawlana Ilyas Patel
Question
I paid kaffara for 2 out of 3 broken oaths without specifying which oaths. Is my kaffara valid despite not specifying which oaths I was paying for?
Answer
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate.
I pray you are in good faith and health. Thank you for your question.
Yes, your expiation (kaffara) is valid. You can now pay for the third.
The reason is the expiation is of one of three options; as long as you do one of the three below, it will fulfill the expiation.
Expiation (Kaffara)
Perform the expiation of an oath, which is either:
- Feeding ten poor people or;
- Clothing ten poor people.
If you cannot feed or clothe them, fasting for three consecutive days will cover it.
Feeding the ten poor people would involve two satiating meals on one day or feeding one poor person for ten days. An alternative is to give them/him the monetary equivalent of the food instead. The amount payable is the value of 2.6 kg of wheat flour or 5.2 kg of dates.
This amount was roughly the same in the past, but with wheat flour being much cheaper in our times, it would be superior to give value of the dates, although the former is valid nonetheless.
Clothing them is with a normal set of clothes of medium quality, or it’s monetary value.
[Maydani, al-Lubab Fi Sharh al-Kitab]
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Wassalam,
[Mawlana] Ilyas Patel
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat
Mawlana Ilyas Patel is a traditionally-trained scholar who has studied in the UK, India, Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, and Turkey. He started his early education in the UK. He went on to complete the hifz of the Quran in India, then enrolled in an Islamic seminary in the UK, where he studied the secular and ‘Aalimiyya sciences. He then traveled to Karachi, Pakistan. He has been an Imam in Rep of Ireland for several years. He has taught hifz of the Quran, Tajwid, Fiqh, and many other Islamic sciences to children and adults onsite and online extensively in the UK and Ireland. He taught at a local Islamic seminary for 12 years in the UK, where he was a librarian and a teacher of Islamic sciences. He currently resides in the UK with his wife. His interest is a love of books and gardening.
