Is expiation (kaffarah) required for breaking an oath to abandon a sin that I involuntarily reverted to, and for swearing that my cousin's daughter would attend school with my sister, which did not happen? And what is the required expiation?
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Whoever breaks an oath is required to repent and offer expiation for the oath, which is: feeding ten poor persons, or clothing them, or freeing a slave. If one cannot find [the means to do] that, then fasting three days for each expiation. If the breaking of the oath was due to genuine coercion or obsessive thoughts, then no expiation is due.
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