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“If any of you is invited to a meal, let him accept; if he is not fasting, let him eat, and if he is fasting, let him pray.” 1. That is: he should offer supplication. 2.
(1) That is, he should supplicate in the manner clarified at the end of the hadith by some narrators.
(2) Reported by Muslim, 4/153; al-Nasai, al-Sunan al-kubra, 62/2; Ahmad, 2/507; and al-Bayhaqi, 7/263 (whose wording is cited here), on the authority of Abu Hurayra as a marfu (Prophetic) report.
"إذا دعي أحدكم إلى طعام فليجب فإن كان مفطرا فليطعم وإن كان صائما فليصل" ١. يعني: الدعاء"٢.
١ أي: فليدع كما هو مفسر في آخر الحديث من بعض الرواة.
٢ رواه مسلم ٤/١٥٣ والنسائي في "الكبرى" ٦٢/٢ وأحمد ٢/٥٠٧ والبيهقي ٧/٢٦٣ واللفظ له من حديث أبي هريرة مرفوعا.