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Yahya related to me from Malik from Hisham Ibn Urwa from his father that Aisha; umm Almuminin said; Rashness in oaths is that a man says; By Allah; No! by Allah! i.e. out of habit. Malik said; The best of what I have heard on the matter is that rashness in oaths is that a man take an oath on something to show that he is certain that it is like he said; only to find that it is other than what he said. This is rashness. Malik said; The binding oath is for example; that a man says that he will not sell his garment for ten dinars; and then he sells it for that; or that he will beat his young slave and then does not beat him; and so on. One does kaffara for making such an oath; and there is no kaffara in rashness. Malik said; As for the one who swears to a thing which he knows is wicked; and he swears to a lie he knows to be a lie; in order to please someone with it or to excuse himself to someone by it or to gain money by it; no kaffara that he does for it can cover it.