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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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The ruling on the obligation of the wedding feast on the husband or the wife's family

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Question:
If the wife's family holds a wedding feast, does the husband also have to hold one?

Answer:
The obligatory thing is one wedding feast that suffices, whether it is from the husband or from the husband. The obligation is a wedding feast between them to announce the marriage and make it public. The common practice is for the husband to provide it; this is the common practice, just as Waleed ibn al-Rahman provided a feast, and al-Zubayr did the same. The common practice is that the wedding feast comes from the husband. It may occasionally happen, rarely, like
Source صحيح البخاري (الشرح الثاني) — binbaz.org.sa (15:53)

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