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1094. Anas bin Mālik narrated: "The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ saw some traces of saffron on 'Abdur-Raḥmān bin 'Awf so he said: 'What is this?' He said: 'I married a woman for the amount of gold equal to a date stone.' So he said: 'May Allāh bless you. Have a banquet, even if with only one sheep.'" (Ṣaḥīḥ)
(He said:) There are narrations on this topic from Ibn Mas'ūd, 'Āishah, Jābir, and Zuhair bin 'Uthmān.
(Abū 'Eisā said:) The Hadīth of Anas is a Hasan Ṣaḥīḥ Hadīth.
Aḥmad bin Ḥanbal said: "The amount of gold equal to a date stone is the weight of three and one third Dirham." Ishāq said: "It is the weight of five (and one third) Dirham."
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Commentary
'Abdur-Rahmān bin 'Awf is one among the Ten who were given the glad tidings of Paradise in this world, and he had very special and close relations with the Prophet ﷺ. He did not invite the Prophet ﷺ to attend his marriage and the Prophet ﷺ did not mind it. It can be inferred from this that the people in the early period of Islam did not make any special arrangements for marriage and did not consider it mandatory to invite all friends and relatives to attend it.
