قُلْتُ لِأَبِي جَعْفَرٍ وَ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) الْيَمِينُ الَّتِي تَلْزَمُنِي فِيهَا الْكَفَّارَةُ فَقَالَا مَا حَلَفْتَ عَلَيْهِ مِمَّا لِلَّهِ فِيهِ طَاعَةٌ أَنْ تَفْعَلَهُ فَلَمْ تَفْعَلْهُ فَعَلَيْكَ فِيهِ الْكَفَّارَةُ وَ مَا حَلَفْتَ عَلَيْهِ مِمَّا لِلَّهِ فِيهِ الْمَعْصِيَةُ فَكَفَّارَتُهُ تَرْكُهُ وَ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ فِيهِ مَعْصِيَةٌ وَ لَا طَاعَةٌ فَلَيْسَ هُوَ بِشَيْءٍ .
Translation
From him, from Sa’ad Bin Sa’ad, from Muhammad Bin Al Qasim Bin Al Fazl, from Hamza Bin Humran, from Dawood Bin Farqad, from Humran who said, ‘I said to Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> and Abu Abdullah<sup>asws</sup>, ‘The oath which necessitates the expiation upon me’. So they both said: ‘Whatever you have sworn upon (if it is) from what is obedience for Allah<sup>azwj</sup> therein if you were to do it, so you do not do it, then upon you is the expiation with regards to it; and whatever you swear upon (if it is) from what is the disobedience for Allah<sup>azwj</sup> therein, so its expiation is that you leave it; and whatever does not happen to have in it a disobedience, nor an obedience, so it is not with anything’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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