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Narrated Anas bin Malik (RA): The Prophet (ﷺ) saw the trace of yellow color on 'Abdur-Rahman bin 'Auf (RA) and asked, "What is this?" He replied, "O Messenger of Allah, I have married a woman for a Nawat weight (equal to one weight of a date-stone) of gold." He said. "May Allah bless you! Hold a wedding feast, even if with a sheep (only)." [Agreed upon; the wording is Muslim's].

Narrated Ibn 'Umar (RA): Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "When one of you is invited to a wedding feast he must attend it." [Agreed upon]. Muslims has: "When one of you invites his brother, he must respond (i.e. attend), whether it is a wedding or something similar."

Narrated Abu Hurairah (RA): Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "The worst kind of food is that at a wedding feast from which those who come (i.e. the poor) are turned away, and to which those who refuse (i.e. the rich) are invited. If anyone does not accept an invitation he has disobeyed Allah and His Messenger." [Reported by Muslim].

Narrated [Abu Hurairah (RA)]: Allah's Messenger (ﷺ), "When one of you is invited (to a meal) he must accept. If he is fasting he should pray (i.e. make supplication for the host) and if he is not fasting he should eat." [Muslim reported it too]. Muslim has something similar to the above from the Hadith of Jabir (RA), it goes: "If he wishes he may eat, and if he wishes he may leave (the food alone)."

Narrated Ibn Mas'ud (RA): Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "The food of Walima on the first day is a duty, that on the second day is a Sunnah, while the third is showing off. Whoever (does something) to show-off, Allah will expose him (in the Hereafter)." [Reported by at-Tirmidhi who considered it Gharib (transmitted through a single narrator)]. [It is incorrectly claimed that] its narrators are those who are reported from in the Sahih (collection of al-Bukhari)]. This Hadith also has a supporting narration collected by Ibn Majah on the authority of Anas (RA).

Narrated Safiya (RA), daughter of Shaiba: The Prophet (ﷺ) held a wedding feast for one of his wives with two Mudd of barley. [Reported by al-Bukhari].

Narrated Anas (RA): The Prophet (ﷺ) stayed three nights between Khaibar and al-Madinah when he consummated his marriage with Safiya (RA). I called the Muslims to his wedding feast which did not include bread or meat. He just ordered some leather dining sheets to be spread, and [Hais, a food made from] dates, sun-baked yogurt and butter were thrown on them. [Agreed upon: the wording is al-Bukhari's].

Narrated a Companion of the Prophet (ﷺ): "When two people come together to issue an invitation, accept that of the one whose door is nearer to you. However, if one of them comes before the other, accept the invitation of the first." [Reported by Abu Dawud, its chain of narrators is weak].

Narrated Abu Juhaifah (RA): Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said: "I do not eat Muttaki'an (sitting with support of something, so as to eat more)." [Reported by al-Bukhari].

Narrated 'Umar bin Abu Salamah (RA): Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said to me, "Dear child, mention Allah's Name, eat with your right hand, and eat from what is next to you." [Agreed upon].

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas (RA): The Prophet (ﷺ) was brought a dish containing Tharid and said, "Eat from its side and not from the middle, for the blessing descends in the middle of it." [Reported by al-Arba'a. This is the wording of an-Nasa'i. Its chain of narrators is Sahih (authentic)]. Abu Huraira reported that Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) never found fault with food (served to him). If he liked anything, he ate it and if he did not like it he left it. [Agreed upon]

Narrated Jabir (RA): The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Do not eat with the left hand, for the devil eats with the left hand." [Reported by Muslim].

Narrated Abu Qatadah (RA): The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "When one of you drinks, he must not breathe into the vessel." [Agreed upon]. Abu Dawud reported something similar from Ibn 'Abbas (RA) and he added: "or blow into it," [at-Tirmidhi graded it Sahih (authentic)].