Paying oath expiation through a charity

A question about paying oath expiation through a charity, in which Jordan's General Iftaa Department answered that there is no objection to appointing a charity that feeds the poor to pay the expiation, since agency in distributing zakat, expiation and vows is permitted. ¹

The questioner asked about giving oath expiation to a charity that feeds the poor and needy. ¹

The Department answered that there is no objection to a Muslim appointing someone to pay the expiation on his behalf, and that jurists stated that agency is permitted in distributing zakat, expiation and vows. ¹ It quoted Mughni al-Muhtaj (3/237) that a person may pay the zakat on his wealth himself and may also appoint an agent to do so. ¹

Jordan's General Iftaa Department published this fatwa on aliftaa.jo as no. 4337, dated 12 March 2026. ¹ The museum records this text as a historical document attributed to the body or scholar that issued it; it issues no ruling of its own.