Is expiation obligatory for broken oaths if the enquirer did not know beforehand that the expiation is feeding ten poor people and did not make allowances for that?
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Whoever swears by Allah to do something and then breaks his oath, an expiation is incumbent upon him. This expiation is: feeding ten poor people from the average of what you feed your own families, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. If one cannot find [any of these], then it is fasting three days. It is not a condition that the one who swore be aware of the expiation.
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