What is the expiation for an oath, and is it permissible to pay it from the livelihood of the one expiating if he is employed, receives a salary, and is unmarried? And does one expiate for multiple oaths collectively or individually?
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The expiation for an oath is feeding ten poor people from the average food one feeds their family, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. Whoever cannot find these, then fasting for three days, as stated in Surat Al-Ma'idah, Ayah 89. The expiation is to be paid from the oath-breaker's own money. If an oath is repeated and broken each time, then expiation is due for each oath, unless the sworn-upon matter is a single thing and the repetition of the oath was intended to confirm previous oaths, in which case only one expiation is due.
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