then spend in charity on it; and if anything is left over, let it be for your family.”

Still, when circumstances like the one just described arise, there is no harm in a person giving precedence to a guest—or to anyone else whom he is obliged to honor—over his own family.

Whoever contemplates the Sunnah of the Messenger ﷺ, his personal practice, and the way of his Companions will discover in them such noble character and lofty etiquette that, were people to adopt them, they would attain honor in both this world and the next. May Allah grant us and you all that is good in this life and the Hereafter.

2/565— Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “The food of two suffices for three, and the food of three suffices for four.” Agreed upon.

In another narration transmitted by Muslim, Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) said that the Prophet ﷺ stated, “The meal of one person suffices for two, the meal of two suffices for four, and the meal of four suffices for eight.”

3/566— Abu Saʿīd al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) related: While we were on a journey with the Prophet ﷺ, a man arrived on his mount, looking right and left. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever has surplus riding-provision should share it with the one who has no mount, and whoever…"