Explanation of the Book of Fitnahs and Rulings-09a

The reciter: Musaddad narrated to us, Yahya ibn Sa'id narrated to us from Sufyan, Mansur narrated to me from Abu Wa'il from Abu Musa from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), who said: .

The Shaykh : Responding to a judge's invitation is permissible, and the evidence for this is the generality of the hadith: , which includes judges and non-judges alike. However, if the invitee knows that he was invited specifically for the sake of a bribe—meaning the judge invited him as a preliminary step before the litigation, and it is not his custom to invite him—then it is considered a bribe and is not permissible. As for one whose custom is to invite him and others, then he should be responded to, and this is not considered a bribe. Yes.