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ذِكْرُ تَخْيِيرِ الْمَدْعُوِّ إِلَى الدَّعْوَةِ بَعْدَ الْإِجَابَةِ بَيْنَ الْأَكْلِ وَالتَّرْكِ

ibnhibban:5303 – ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Mūsá Biʿaskar Mukram > ʿAmr b. ʿAlī b. Baḥr > Abū ʿĀṣim > Ibn Jurayj > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "When someone invites you, respond to the invitation. If you wish, you may attend, and if you wish, you may decline."  

ابن حبّان:٥٣٠٣ – أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُوسَى بِعَسْكَرِ مُكْرَمٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا عَمْرُو بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ بَحْرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ شَاءَ أَكَلَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ»  

See similar narrations below:

Collected by Muslim, Aḥmad, Dārimī, Ibn Ḥibbān, Ṭabarānī, Nasāʾī's Kubrá, Suyūṭī
muslim:1430a – [Chain 1] Muḥammad b. al-Muthanná > ʿAbd al-Raḥman b. Mahdī [Chain 2] Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr from my father > Sufyān > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

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".  

مسلم:١٤٣٠a – وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمُثَنَّى حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ مَهْدِيٍّ ح وَحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا أَبِي قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى طَعَامٍ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ شَاءَ طَعِمَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ وَلَمْ يَذْكُرِ ابْنُ الْمُثَنَّى إِلَى طَعَامٍ  

ahmad:15219 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq > Sufyān > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

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. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 3740)   

أحمد:١٥٢١٩ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّزَّاقِ أَخْبَرَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ شَاءَ طَعِمَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ  

darimi:1778 – Ḥajjāj b. Minhāl > Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah > Abū al-Zinād > al-Aʿraj > Abū Hurayrah

When one of you is invited (to a meal), and he is fasting, he should say that he is fasting. (Using translation from Abū Dāʾūd 2461)  

الدارمي:١٧٧٨ – أَخْبَرَنَا حَجَّاجُ بْنُ مِنْهَالٍ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ عَنْ الْأَعْرَجِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى طَعَامٍ وَهُوَ صَائِمٌ فَلْيَقُلْ إِنِّي صَائِمٌ  

ذِكْرُ الْخَبَرِ الْمُفَسِّرِ لِلْأَلْفَاظِ الْمُجْمَلَةِ الَّتِي تَقَدَّمَ ذِكْرُنَا لَهَا

ibnhibban:5306 – Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthanná > Abū Bakr b. Abū Shaybah > Ḥafṣ b. Ghiyāth > Hishām > Ibn Sīrīn > Abū Hurayrah

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. (Using translation from Muslim 1431)  

ابن حبّان:٥٣٠٦ – أَخْبَرَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ عَلِيِّ بْنِ الْمُثَنَّى قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ أَبِي شَيْبَةَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا حَفْصُ بْنُ غِيَاثٍ عَنْ هِشَامٍ عَنِ ابْنِ سِيرِينَ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ «إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ كَانَ صَائِمًا فَلْيُصَلِّ وَإِنْ كَانَ مُفْطِرًا فَلْيَطْعَمْ»  

tabarani:10563 – ʿAbdān b. Aḥmad > Yaḥyá b. Muḥammad b. al-Sakan > Yaḥyá b. Kathīr > Shuʿbah > Abū Jaʿfar al-Farrāʾ > ʿAbdullāh b. Shaddād > ʿAbdullāh b. Masʿūd

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah, ﷺ , said, "If one of you is invited to a meal, let him accept, and if he is fasting, let him pray for blessings."  

الطبراني:١٠٥٦٣ – حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدَانُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ السَّكَنِ ثنا يَحْيَى بْنُ كَثِيرٍ ثنا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ أَبِي جَعْفَرٍ الْفَرَّاءِ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ شَدَّادٍ عَنْ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ إِلَى طَعَامٍ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ كَانَ مُفْطِرًا فَلْيَأْكُلْ وَإِنْ كَانَ صَائِمًا فَلْيَدْعُ بِالْبَرَكَةِ»  

nasai-kubra:6575 – Sulaymān b. Manṣūr al-Balkhī > Abū al-Aḥwaṣ > Sufyān > Abū al-Zubayr > Jābir

[Machine] The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "When any of you is invited, let him accept, if he wishes he may eat, and if he wishes he may leave."  

الكبرى للنسائي:٦٥٧٥ – أَخْبَرَنَا سُلَيْمَانُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ الْبَلْخِيُّ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو الْأَحْوَصِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ عَنْ أَبِي الزُّبَيْرِ عَنْ جَابِرٍ قَالَ

قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ ﷺ «إِذَا دُعِيَ أَحَدُكُمْ فَلْيُجِبْ فَإِنْ شَاءَ طَعِمَ وَإِنْ شَاءَ تَرَكَ»  

suyuti:1807a –

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". (Using translation from Muslim 1430a)   

السيوطي:١٨٠٧a –

لا إِذا دُعِيَ أحدُكُمْ إلى طعامٍ فليُجبْ، فإِنْ شاءَ طَعِمَ وإنْ شَاءَ لمْ يَطعَمْ" .  

عبد بن حميد، [م] مسلم [د] أبو داود [حب] ابن حبّان عن جابر