Scattering walnuts and sugar at a wedding

Husayn (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I attended the wedding of Abbas bin Tammam, and Ikrimah was with us. Some people brought almonds, sweets and the like in order to scatter them and toss them towards the people. Ikrimah said: "Bring these things on plates so that we may take what we need."

Al-Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said that there is no harm in scattering sweets and the like at weddings, feasts and similar occasions and in people snatching them from one another to eat.

Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) liked sweets and the like to be brought on plates, so that people could take from them as much as they needed.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) also saw no harm in it.

Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) said that children pick it up.

Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla (may Allah have mercy on him) was invited to a wedding. At that wedding people brought sweets to scatter. He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "Distribute these sweets among them."

Musa bin Abdullah bin Yazid al-Ansari (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I was at a wedding, and people began to scatter sweets. Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Layla (may Allah have mercy on him) said: "(Do not scatter it.) Set it down and distribute it."

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Yazid al-Khatmi (may Allah be pleased with him) said regarding the scattering of walnuts and the like: "If you set them down, we will take some of them, and if you scatter them, we will not take any of them."

Abu Ja'far (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I met many righteous people who disliked eating what had been scattered.

Ibrahim disliked the scattering of walnuts and sweets.

He said: And Amir said: There is no harm in it; what is disliked is only that which its owner is not content to give.

It was the practice of Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) that whenever things were being scattered over children, he would forbid his children from taking them and would buy some for them.

It is narrated from Khalid bin Sa'd that Sayyiduna Abu Mas'ud (may Allah be pleased with him) disliked the scattering of sweets and the like over children.

Al-Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) said: I was with Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) and al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him). They were both asked about the scattering of sweets and the like at a wedding. Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked it.

And al-Sha'bi saw no harm in it.

Al-Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) saw no harm in it.

And Ibrahim disliked it.

Ikrimah (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked the scattering of sweets and the like.

Ata also disliked it.