الأمر بوليمة النكاح وإجابة الداعي إليها في صحيح مسلم (دراسة فِقهِيَّةً مُقارِنَة)

Abstract

Abstract This paper which is entitled "The Order of Conducting the Marriage Feast and Answering the Invitation in Sahih Muslim - a Comparative Study", is one of the most prominent means of making the marriage known which is dealt with by the Islamic scholars plainly in details. This subject is worth of study and researching because it is closely associated with the Muslim community, and feeding people in such occasions is from the close good deeds the Islam urges and calls for. The researcher began to discuss this subject starting with the hadiths in the Sahih al-Imam al-Muslim in which the order was given regarding the marriage meal. The study wants to know whether there is any order calling for doing the meal or answering the inviters of the meal or eating from it believing that it is Muslim’s duty to answer the invitation or not. Then, the researcher talked about the most appropriate attitude of the scholars and their viewpoints in terms of this topic besides showing their proofs and discussing them to arrive at a moderate and correct viewpoints among all these viewpoints. The researcher divided the research into an introduction, four sections, and a conclusion. In the introduction, the researcher mentioned the importance of the research, the reasons for choosing it, and its methodology. The first section comes across the definition of the terms of the title in a way that the researcher dealt with the definition of the command, the meal from the perspective of the language and terminology, and it introduces Imam Muslim and his book (True Muslim). Then the second section concentrates on making the order to conduct the banquet whereas the third section focuses on the order to answer the invitation for the banquet. Then, the fourth section studies the order to eat of the meal through mentioning the sayings of the scholars and their evidences. Finally, the researcher arrives at the most important concluded points.