Is a young man who broke his oath before reaching the age of maturity, and who lives with his parents and is unemployed, obligated to offer an expiation of feeding ten poor persons, clothing them, or freeing a slave, or should he fast for three days? And is it permissible to give the monetary value of the feeding as charity and place it in the Zakat fund, given that continuous fasting might harm him?

The expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-yameen) involves several issues:

1. There is no expiation for someone who swore an oath before reaching puberty. However, after puberty, expiation is obligatory for each broken oath.

2. Fasting is not sufficient for the expiation of an oath except when one is unable to feed or clothe, and a person is considered unable if they do not have a surplus beyond their own and their dependents' sustenance that is sufficient for the expiation. Fasting is sufficient for someone who is permitted to receive zakat.

3. The majority of scholars hold that expiation must be given as food and that money is not sufficient.

4. It is not permissible to pay the expiation into a fund specifically for zakat disbursements, due to several precautions. These include the possibility of paying the expiation to fewer or more than ten needy persons, or the amount paid being less than what is sufficient for one needy person. Furthermore, expiation is exclusively for the needy, unlike zakat which can be distributed to other categories.

5. Scholars differed on whether continuity is a condition for fasting in expiation for an oath; some made it obligatory, while others recommended it.