The qasamah when they are fewer than fifty

Hammad said that Ibrahim said: As long as the oaths have not reached their full number, repeat them until they have sworn fifty oaths.

Muhammad bin Sirin said that Shurayh said: An occasion of qasamah came and the people did not complete fifty oaths, so he returned the oaths to them until they completed them.

Ibn Sirin said that Shurayh said: When they are fewer than fifty, the oaths are to be returned to them.

Abu Malih said that Sayyiduna Umar bin al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) returned the oaths to those people a second time.

Mughirah said that Ibrahim said: When they are fewer than fifty, the oaths are to be returned to them in order, the first and then the next.

Abu al-Zinad said that Umar bin Abd al-Aziz, in a case of qasamah, returned the oaths to a group of seven men, one of whom was my maternal uncle.

Ma'mar said that al-Zuhri said: When even one man is missing from the fifty in qasamah, we do not regard it as valid.

Ibn Jurayj said that Ibn Shihab said: As for the practice the people follow today, in it the oaths are returned a second time.