Feeding Students of Religious Madrasas as the Expiation for a Fast

Question

May the resident students of a religious madrasa, whose food and drink the madrasa is responsible for, be fed the food of the kaffara (expiation) for a fast?

Answer

If they are eligible to receive zakat, they may be fed, but they should be seated and fed; it should not be that they are handed two flatbreads and sent on their way. Let them sit and eat two flatbreads — or less or more — as much as it takes for them to be satisfied.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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