On the authority of Sa‘īd al-Maqburī, on the authority of Abū Shurayḥ al-Ka‘bī: that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: “Hospitality is three days, and his due is a day and a night, and whatever is spent on him after that is charity, and it is not lawful for him to stay with him until he causes him distress.”(1)

The meaning of his saying, “he does not stay with him,” means that the guest does not remain with him until it becomes hard upon the owner of the house. And al-ḥaraj means constriction. His saying, “until he causes him distress,” means: until he makes things difficult for him.

In this chapter, there is also a narration from ‘Ā’ishah and Abū Hurayrah.

Mālik ibn Anas and al-Layth ibn Sa‘d have narrated it from Sa‘īd al-Maqburī.

This is a ḥasan ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth.

And Abū Shurayḥ al-Khuzā‘ī is al-Ka‘bī, and he is al-‘Adawī, and his name is Khuwaylid ibn ‘Amr.

44 — Chapter: What has been reported about striving to serve the widow and the orphan

2084 — Al-Anṣārī narrated to us, he said: Ma‘n narrated to us, he said: Mālik narrated to us, from Ṣafwān ibn Sulaym, raising it to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, who said: “The one who strives to serve the widow and the poor is like the one who strives in the path of Allah, or like the one who fasts by day and prays by night.”(2)

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(1) See what precedes it.
(2) A ṣaḥīḥ ḥadīth by virtue of other narrations; this version is mursal, narrated by Mālik in “al-Muwaṭṭa’” (in the narration of =