Chapter: The command to accept invitations

When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should attend it.

When any one of you is invited to a feast, he should accept. 'Ubaidallah took this feast to be a wedding feast.

When any one of you is invited to a wedding feast, he should accept that.

Accept the feast, when you are invited.

When any one of you invites his brother, he (the latter) should accept his wedding feast, or any other like it.

He who is invited to a wedding feast or like it, he should accept it.

Come to the feast, when you are invited.

I heard Abdullah b. Umar (Allah be pleased with them) narrating that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) 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.

When you are invited to a feast (even though it is) the leg of the sheep, you should accept it.

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".

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abd Zubair with the same chain of transmitters.

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.

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 (ﷺ).

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.

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters. A hadith like this has been narrated by Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) through another chain of transmitters.

Abu Haraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle (ﷺ) 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 (ﷺ).