Is expiation (kaffarah) obligatory for both spouses or for the husband alone when engaging in intercourse during the daytime in Ramadan, and is it permissible to pay the expiation in cash, and what is its amount in Moroccan currency?
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Whoever has intercourse during the daytime in must offer expiation, which is: freeing a slave. If one cannot find a slave, then fasting for two consecutive months. If one is unable to do that, then feeding sixty poor people. Paying money is not sufficient. As for the wife, if she was consenting, she also owes expiation, according to the majority of scholars, and it is more prudent for her to expiate.
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