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What is the ruling on someone who swore by Allah to abstain from eating sausages, then ate them based on a fatwa he heard, and does this entail sin or an expiation of fasting three days?

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Swearing off something permissible is allowed, but if you consume it, you must offer expiation for breaking an oath. This is based on the hadith from Abu Hurayrah: "Whoever takes an oath and then sees that something else is better than it, let him do that [which is better] and offer expiation for his oath." The expiation for an oath is feeding ten needy persons, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. If you cannot find any of these, then fasting for three days. There is no sin in swearing off a particular food.

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