– fasting three days,
– or feeding six needy persons,
– or slaughtering a sheep.

This is called the expiation for harm (fidya al-adhā). The same ruling applies when one clips his nails, a male pilgrim wears stitched clothing, covers his head, or any pilgrim—male or female—applies perfume: in every such case the expiation is a choice among fasting, feeding, or sacrifice.

As for the expiation for killing game, Allah has given three alternatives:
– slaughtering a head of livestock equivalent to the game that was killed,
– or calculating its value in food and giving each poor person one mudd of wheat (about three-quarters of a kilogram) or half a sāʿ of any other staple,
– or fasting one day for every poor person who would have been fed.

All of these are expiations of choice.

With respect to the pilgrim performing tamattuʿ or qirān, their offering is a devotional sacrifice rather than a compensatory one, and its ruling is sequential:
– if an animal for sacrifice is available, then the hady is obligatory;
– if it is not, he must fast ten days: three during the pilgrimage—without delaying them beyond the Days of Tashrīq—and seven upon his return, that is, after completing all the rites.

The unrestricted wording of the verse that obliges fasting shows that these ten days may be observed either consecutively or separately.