CHAPTER: WHEN ONE IS INVITED TO A WEDDING FEAST, ONE SHOULD ACCEPT IT
No. 3337
Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should attend it.
No. 3338
Ibn 'Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should accept. 'UbaidAllaah took this feast to be a wedding feast.
No. 3339
Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased withthem) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) having said this: When any one of you is invited to a wedding feast, he should accept that.
No. 3340
Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Messenger (may be upon him) having said this: Accept the feast, when you are invited.
No. 3341
Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: When any one of you invites his brother, he (the latter) should accept his wedding feast, or any other like it.
No. 3342
Ibn 'Umar (Allaah be pleated with them) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) having said: He who is invited to a wedding feast or like it, he should accept it.
No. 3343
" Abdullah b. Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Messen- ger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: Come to the feast, when you are invited.
No. 3344
Nafil reported: I heard Abdullah b. Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) narrating that Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) said: Accept the feast when you are invited to it. And Abdullah (b. Umar) used to come to the feast, whether it was a wedding feast or other than that, and he would come there even in the state of fasting.
No. 3345
Ibn Umar (Allaah be pleased with them) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) having said: When you are invited to a feast (even though it is) the leg of the sheep, you should accept it.
No. 3346
Jabir (Allaah be pleased with him) reported that Allaah's Messenger (may peace he upon him) said: When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should accept it. He may eat if he likes, or he may abandon (eating) if he likes. Ibn Mathanni did not make mention of the word" feast".
No. 3347
A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abd Zubair with the same chain of transmitters.
No. 3348
Abu Haraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: If any one of you is invited, he should accept (the invitation). In case he is fasting, he should pray (in order to bless the inmates of the house), and if he is not fasting he should eat.
No. 3349
Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) used to say: The worst kind of food is the wedding feast to which the rich are invited and the poor are ignored. He who does not come to the feast, he in fact disobeys Allaah and His Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam).
No. 3350
Sufyan reported: I said to Zuhri: Abu Bakr, what does this hadith mean:" The worst kind of food is at a wedding feast of the rich"? He laughed and said: The food served in the feast given by the rich is not worst (in itself). Sufyan said: My father was rich, so I felt disturbed when I heard this hadith, so I asked Zuhri who said: I heard from 'Abd al-Rahman al-Alraj that he heard Abu Huraira (Allaah he pleased with him) say: The worst kind of food is that served at the wedding feast. The rest of the hadith is the same.
No. 3351
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.
No. 3352
A hadith like this has been narrated by Abu Huraira (Allaah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.
No. 3353
Abu Haraira (Allaah be pleased with him) reported Allaah's Prophet (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying. The worst kind of food is at the wedding feast from which one who comes is turned away, and he who refuses it is invited, and he who did not accept the invitation disobeyed Allaah and His Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam).