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What is the ruling on someone who swore by Allah not to buy his sister a gas cooker for her marriage, then obeyed his sick father and bought it for her?

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You have done well in obeying your father, and you owe an expiation for breaking an oath, according to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: "Whoever takes an oath and then sees something better than it, let him do what is better and abandon his oath." And in another narration: "and expiate for his oath." The expiation is feeding ten poor persons, or clothing them, or emancipating a believing slave. If you are unable to do that, then fast three days.

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