WHEN ONE IS INVITED TO A WEDDING FEAST, ONE SHOULD ACCEPT IT(SAHIH HADITH MUSLIM)
Monday, March 31st, 2008Chapter# 16, Book 8, Number 3337:
Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should attend it.
Book 8, Number 3338:
Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should accept. ‘Ubaidallah took this feast to be a wedding feast.
Book 8, Number 3339:
Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased withthem) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) having said this: When any one of you is invited to a wedding feast, he should accept that.
Book 8, Number 3340:
Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may be upon him) having said this: Accept the feast, when you are invited.
Book 8, Number 3341:
Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: When any one of you invites his brother, he (the latter) should accept his wedding feast, or any other like it.
Book 8, Number 3342:
Ibn ‘Umar (Allah be pleated with them) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) having said: He who is invited to a wedding feast or like it, he should accept it.
Book 8, Number 3343:
” Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Messen- ger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Come to the feast, when you are invited.
Book 8, Number 3344:
Nafil reported: I heard Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them) narrating that Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) 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.
Book 8, Number 3345:
Ibn Umar (Allah be pleased with them) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) having said: When you are invited to a feast (even though it is) the leg of the sheep, you should accept it.
Book 8, Number 3346:
Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported that Allah’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”.
Book 8, Number 3347:
A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abd Zubair with the same chain of transmitters.
Book 8, Number 3348:
Abu Haraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Messenger (may peace be upon him) 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.
Book 8, Number 3349:
Abu Huraira (Allah 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 Allah and His Messenger (may peace be upon him).
Book 8, Number 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 (Allah 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.
Book 8, Number 3351:
This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.
Book 8, Number 3352:
A hadith like this has been narrated by Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.
Book 8, Number 3353:
Abu Haraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) 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 Allah and His Messenger (may peace be upon him).