The Book Of Oaths

Rulings and guidelines related to oaths in Islam.

Rulings on Oaths and Breaking Them

Making the Oath Subject to Allah's Will

He Swore Not to do Something, Then He Did it

He Swore Not to do Something, But He Fears That He Might do it

He Swore Not to do Something, Then He Did it Forgetfully

He Forbade Something to Himself and Now He Wants to do it

He Swore That He Would Not Do Something and Then He Was Compelled to do it

The Oath is According to the Intention of the One Who Swears

The Ruling on Swearing about Some Sport or Pastime

The One Who Breaks His Oath Must Atone for it

A Woman Swears to Her Children,Then They Disobey Her

A Woman Swore Not to Enter Her Son's House and (Now) She Wishes to Buy the House

The Ruling on Swearing to Divorce and Swearing to do What is Forbidden

Swearing to Divorce Three Times For the Purpose of Obliging Someone

He Swore an Oath of Divorce so That He Would not Return to Something, Then He returned to it

He Swore to Divorce in a Fit of Anger

He Swore to Divorce Forgetfully

He Said to His Wife: If You Go Out, Then do Not Return, Intending to Prevent Her

He Said to Her: If You do Such-and-such, You Are Forbidden (to Me),Then She Did it Forgetfully

The Ruling on Prohibiting Something by the Heart Without Uttering it, With the Intention of Preventing it

The Amount of Food Required for the Atonement of an Oath

It is Not Permissible to Begin With Fasting Before Feeding (the Poor)

The Ruling on Repeated Oaths to do One Thing

The Ruling on Making the Atonement for an Oath as Money

The Ruling on One Who Swore Upon a Copy of the Qur'an to a Lie

The Ruling on Making Vows in Islam

The Ruling on Changing the Direction of the Vow

Is it Permissible for One to Eat from what He has Dedicated?

It is Hated to Make Vows, But it is Obligatory to Fulfill Them

He Vowed to Slaughter a Sheep, Then He Sold it

A Vow Does not Prevent Anything that Has Been Decreed by Allah

The Ruling on Making a Vow to Other Than Allah and is it Shirk or Not?

The Ruling on One Who Made a Vow and Did not Fulfill it

It is Obligatory to Fulfill a Vow as it is

A Conditional Vow

The Ruling on Giving Charity Equal to the Value of the Vow

It is not Obligatory for One to Fulfill Vow He made to Himself

He Vowed to Sacrifice an Animal if He Passed an Exam and He Passed at the Second Session

The Ruling on One Who Vowed to Sacrifice Beside Graves and Tombs

The Ruling on One Who Made a Vow But Did not Fulfill it

May a Man Eat From the Meat Which He Vowed to or not?

He Vowed to Pray Ten Rak'ahs, Should He Pray Them All in One Day?

She Vowed to Slaughter a She-camel and not to Eat From it, Then She Ate From it

The Ruling on Delaying the Fulfillment of a Vow

The Ruling on One Who Made a Vow Dependent Upon Something in the Future and it Did not Happen

Fulfilling an Oath is Obligatory

A Vow Whose Intention is to Prevent Something Falls Under the Ruling of an Oath

This is not a Vow

The Ruling on Fulfilling a Vow With the Money of Another

Declaring Something Permissible to be Forbidden Does not Make it so

The Atonement for an Oath

It is Better to Make the Atonement Before Breaking the Oath

The Ruling on One Who Swore by Allah to a Lie and What is Incumbent Upon Him

The Ruling on Spending on Mujahidin as Atonement for an Oath

How do We Atone for a Number of Oaths, if We do not Know How Many They are?

If a Number of Oaths Were Made,is One Atonement Sufficient?

You Must Fulfill Your Oath

She Vowed to Fast, Then She Was Unable to

I Slaughtered the Animal I Vowed to, Then I Ate From it

Fulfilling an Oath in Accordance With the Intention

Making a Vow to Other Than Allah is Shirk and it is Invalid and Should not be Fulfilled and the Animal Consecrated is Dead Meat

Resolutions of the Fiqh Council on Placing the Hand on the Tawrah or the Injil or Both of Them When Swearing an Oath Before a Court

He Swore to Abandon Something and He Did Not Abandon it

He Swore Not to do Something, Then He Was Forced to do it

Is the Saying of People: I have Sworn Upon You an Oath?
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