The difference between swearing an oath & making a vow

Question:

What is the difference between making a vow and swearing an oath?

Answer:

An oath is sworn by a name from the names of Allāh or an attribute from His attributes then what he intended by his oath is enacted.

(As for) the vow, he enacts what he intended by making a vow (to do it), such as to say: “For Allāh upon me is a vow (to do such and such”), this is making a vow, not swearing an oath.

An oath is sworn by a name from Allāh’s names: “I swear by Allāh I will definitely do such and such” “I swear by the might of Allāh I will definitely do such and such”.

They are both expiated due to the aforementioned hadith of ‘Uqbah Ibn ‘Āmir (may Allāh be pleased with him):
: [” كَفَّارَةُ النَّذْرِ كَفَّارَةُ الْيَمِينِ”]
[“The expiation for (breaking) a vow is the expiation for (breaking) an oath.”] (1), so he expiates the oath if he breaks it and expiates the vow if he is unable to fulfil it.

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Answered by: Shaykh Abū Bilāl al-Ḥaḍramī (May Allāh preserve him)

Source : https://t.me/abubilalhami/7892

Translated by: Abū Sufyān Samuel ibn Daniel Al-Britāni Al-Ghāni