Those who said: swearing (qasam) is an oath that is expiated

Sayyiduna Ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Swearing (qasam) is an oath (yamin).

Mujahid said: Swearing (qasam) is an oath (yamin). Then he recited this verse: "And they swore by Allah their most solemn oaths." [Al-An'am: 109]

Ibrahim said: "Aqsamtu" (I swore) is an oath.

Abu al-Bakhtari said: A man swore that he would not drink from the milk of his wife's goat. Sayyiduna Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) said: What is better for him is that he offers the expiation for his oath.

Ibrahim said concerning a man who adjures another man by an oath, and the other makes him break it: I prefer that he offers the expiation for his oath.

Abu al-Minhal said that a man adjured another man by an oath and the other made him break it. Abu al-Aliyah said: Offer the expiation for your oath.

Al-Hasan said: When a man adjures another by an oath and that one makes the swearer break it, there is no expiation upon him, unless he swears himself; when he swears himself and breaks it, the expiation is due upon him.

Al-Hakam said: Swearing (qasam) is an oath (yamin).

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) said: Swearing (qasam) is an oath (yamin).

Bakr said: When a man adjures another man by an oath and the other makes him break it, the sin is upon the one who made him break it, because he adjured him only out of trust in him.

Alqamah said: Swearing (qasam) is an oath (yamin).