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✍️Works of Ibn Abi al-Dunya

Guest villages

قرى الضيف

Author: أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن عبيد بن سفيان بن قيس البغدادي الأموي القرشي المعروف بابن أبي الدنيا (المتوفى: 281هـ) (d. 281)

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كتاب "قرى الضيف" لابن أبي الدنيا هو مجموعة من الأحاديث والآثار النبوية وأخبار السلف، يجمعها موضوع إكرام الضيف والضيافة. يورد الكتاب فضائل إطعام الطعام وحسن استقبال الضيف، مستشهدًا بقصص الأنبياء والصالحين في البذل والسخاء، مع بيان آداب الضيافة وحدودها الشرعية.

Translation

The book “Guest Villages” by Ibn Abi Al-Dunya is a collection of hadiths, prophetic narrations, and narrations of the predecessors, united by the theme of honoring the guest and hospitality. The book lists the virtues of providing food and receiving guests well, citing stories of the prophets and righteous people in giving and generosity, while explaining the etiquette of hospitality and its legal limits.

Topics covered

  • The guest villages of Ibn Abi Al-Dunya
  • Whoever believes in God and the Last Day, let him honor his guest
  • The first to host the guest was Ibrahim, peace be upon him
  • Ibrahim was the first to add the guest
  • If he wanted to have lunch, he would go out a mile or two to look for someone to have lunch with him
  • If a guest visited us, we would not eat until he was satisfied or until he had eaten
  • He is in Jud's house, meaning in the Battle of Al-Khatt
  • I would guide her to the Kaaba, and he used to guide her
  • No one gets up from him unless he is in a state of intense heat
  • All of us were generous with food
  • Let me become brave every day
  • God Almighty loves the people of a fertile household
  • God loves to see the effect of His grace on His servant in his food and drink
  • The most beloved food to God Almighty is that with many hands
  • It is Sunnah for a man to walk with his guest to the door of the house
  • I obeyed God and disobeyed Satan
  • It is enough evil for a person to be upset by what is near him
  • He offered us broth but there was no meat in it
  • You only interrupt people with affectation
  • Nothing is more harmful to a guest than the master of the house being full
  • A man's zakat on his house is to make it a guest house
  • This is what they do to readers

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