Distributing Almonds and Sweets at Weddings

Hazrat Husain (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I was present at the wedding of Abbas bin Tamam. Hazrat Ikrimah was also with us. Some people brought almonds and sweets, etc., so that they could scatter them and throw them towards the people. Hazrat Ikrimah said, "Bring these things in plates so that we may take according to our need."

Hasan (may Allah have mercy on him) said that there is no harm in scattering sweets, etc., at weddings and feasts, and in snatching and eating them from one another.

Hazrat Ibn Sirin (may Allah have mercy on him) used to prefer that sweets and the like be brought in plates so that people could take from them according to their need.

Hazrat Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) also does not consider there to be any harm in this.

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

Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila (may Allah have mercy on him) was invited to a wedding, in which people brought sweets to be scattered. He (may Allah have mercy on him) said: Distribute these sweets among them.

Hazrat Musa bin Abdullah bin Yazid Ansari (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I was at a wedding, people started scattering sweets, so Hazrat Abdur Rahman bin Abi Laila (may Allah have mercy on him) said, "Do not scatter (them), keep them and distribute them."

Hazrat Abdullah bin Yazid Al-Khatmi (may Allah have mercy on him) regarding hanging almonds and the like, said: If you place them (down), we will be able to reach them, but if you hang them, we will not be able to reach them.

Hazrat Abu Ja'far (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I found many righteous people who disliked eating looted items.

Ibrahim disliked distributing almonds and sweets. Hazrat Amir, may Allah have mercy on him, said that there is no harm in it; indeed, it was disliked because a noble person’s soul does not like it.

22426 - He said: And ‘Amir said: There is no harm; he only disliked what the owner did not willingly give.

It was the practice of Hazrat Abu Mas’ud Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) that when things were being distributed among children, he would prevent the children from taking them and would buy and give them to them.

Hazrat Khalid bin Sa’d disliked scattering sweets and the like over children.

Hazrat Hakam (may Allah have mercy on him) says that I was with Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) and Hazrat Sha’bi (may Allah have mercy on him). Both of them were asked about distributing sweets, etc., at a wedding. Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked it, while Hazrat Sha’bi (may Allah have mercy on him) did not see any harm in it.

22430 - And al-Sha‘bi saw nothing wrong with it.

Hazrat Sha'bi (may Allah have mercy on him) did not consider there to be any harm in it, and Ibrahim (may Allah have mercy on him) disliked it.

22432 - And Ibrahim disliked it. [1]

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

Hazrat Ata (may Allah be pleased with him) also disliked this.