Is merely seeking forgiveness and repenting sufficient for repeated oaths when one is in financial hardship and fasting is difficult, or is something else required?

Oaths are divided into three types:

1. Lapsing Oath (Yamin al-Laghw): This is an oath that the swearer did not intend as a binding oath, or an oath made based on an assumption that later proves to be false. Most scholars agree that there is no expiation (kaffarah) for this type of oath.

2. Binding Oath (Yamin Mun'aqidah): This is an oath made to do something or to refrain from doing something, which is then violated. Expiation is required for this type of oath by the consensus of jurists.

3. Immersion Oath (Yamin Ghamus): This is a false oath sworn knowingly. The majority of scholars hold that there is no expiation for it, and their opinion is the most authoritative, although Imam al-Shafi'i was of the view that expiation is required for it.

Whoever swears an oath not to do something and then does it, expiation becomes binding upon them. If they repeat the oath and the breaking of it, another expiation becomes binding. If they repeat the oath without breaking it, and then break it, the most authoritative view is that only one expiation is binding upon them, based on the saying of Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both): "If you swear an oath multiple times, then only one expiation is required."

The expiation for an oath is: freeing a slave, or feeding ten poor people, or clothing them. If the swearer is unable to do any of these options, then they must fast for three days. It is preferable that these fasts be consecutive, but it is permissible to fast them separately.