Is it permissible to give the university cleaning staff—who desire leftover food—from the expiation of feeding a poor person, and are they considered among the poor?
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It appears that the aforementioned workers are eligible recipients of food, charity (), and . It is permissible to give them food as part of an expiation (). The expiation for an oath (kaffarat al-) must be distributed among ten needy persons, as held by the majority of scholars, based on the Almighty's saying: "Its expiation is the feeding of ten needy people."
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