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Sunan Abi Dawud 3740

What has been reported about accepting invitations

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

مَنْ دُعِيَ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ شَاءَ طَعِمَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. Kathīr
  2. Sufyān
  3. Abū al-Zubayr
  4. Jābir
  5. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

when one of you is invited to a meal, he must accept. If he wishes he may eat, but if he wishes(to leave), he may leave.

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al-AlbaniSoundfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Muhyi al-Din Abd al-HamidSahihfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautSahihfawazahmed0
Zubair Ali ZaiSahih Muslim (1430)fawazahmed0

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. Companion (ṣaḥābī)d. al-Haytham b. ʿAdī said, and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in some reports from them: 68 AH. Abū Sulaymān b. Zabr said: 72 AH. Muḥammad b. Saʿd said, and al-Haytham b. ʿAdī in another report: 73 AH. Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā b. Ḥabbān said: 77 AH. Abū ʿAwn al-Madanī and others said: 78 AH. Abū Nuʿaym and Khalīfah b. Khayyāṭ in another report said: 79 AH
    جَابِرُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عَمْرِو بْنِ حَرَامٍ الْأَنْصَارِيُّصحابي
    عن
  2. Truthful (ṣadūq), except that he practiced concealment (yudallis)d. before 126 AH, or 128 AH
    أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِصدوق إلا أنه يدلس
    عن
  3. trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), a jurist (faqīh), devout (ʿābid), an imam and authority (ḥujjah)d. 159 AH or 160 AH or 161 AH or 162 AH
    سُفْيَانُثقة حافظ , فقيه عابد ، إمام حجة
    أنا
  4. Trustworthy (thiqah); those who declared him weak were not correct.d. 223 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ كَثِيرٍثقة ، لم يصب من ضعفه
    حدثنا
  5. Trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), the compiler of the Sunan and other works, one of the senior scholars.d. 275 AH
    أَبُو دَاوُدَ السِّجِسْتَانِيُّثقة ، حافظ , مصنف السنن وغيرها ، من كبار العلماء

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Commentaries

شرح مشكل الآثار
ʿAwn al-Maʿbūd (Ashraf)

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