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The locust

الجراد

Among the signs sent upon Pharaoh's people was the locust with the flood, the lice, the frogs and the blood; on the Day of Resurrection people come out of the graves like scattered locusts, and the jurists allow eating it even in ihram.

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Animals and mercy

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Muwatta 1248· Muwatta 1249· Qur'an 54:7· Qur'an 7:133

People and things also explored

Expiation (kaffara)· Muwatta, Book of Pilgrimage (hajj)· Umar ibn al-Khattab· Ka'b al-Ahbar· Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Ansari· Zayd ibn Aslam· Muwatta 1248· Muwatta 1249

Sources

  • Tanzil Project, Qur'an text v1.1
  • Muwatta, recension of Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (ed. Bashar Awwad Ma'ruf)
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Expiation (kaffara)

Kaffara means covering, from the root of concealing. In law it is an expiation owed for certain sins and violations; it has both a penal and a devotional character. One cause is breaking an oath: it is owed on breaking the oath, not on swearing it; the schools differ on the oath of deception and on the vain oath, on whether several oaths on one matter need several expiations, and on expiating before breaking the oath. Another cause is killing: all agree on the expiation for killing by mistake and near-intentional killing; the schools differ on intentional killing, on killing by causation and on a foetus. The article then covers breaking the fast of Ramadan and the rules on intercourse in it, the prohibitions of the hajj and ihram, the expiation for zihar, and the conditions and kinds of expiation.