Does eating with someone forgiven guarantee forgiveness?
2026-10-14
T175 · Ibn Taymiyyah
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah
شيخ الإسلام أحمد بن تيمية
Original Q&A · Complete individual question and response within a collected question
One complete individual question and response from a collected question about reports circulated by storytellers and others. The quoted report in the question is presented for assessment, not endorsed. The answer gives Ibn Taymiyyah's own assessment.
النص العربي
السؤال الأصلي
ومما يروون عنه صلى الله عليه وسلم: "من أكل مع مغفور له غفر له".
الجواب
الحمد لله، هذا ليس له إسناد عن أهل العلم، ولا هو في شيء من كتب المسلمين، وإنما يروونه عن سالم، وليس معناه صحيحا على الإطلاق، فقد يأكل مع المسلمين الكفار والمنافقون.
English translation
English translation prepared for SalafAlSalih.com from the cited Arabic source. It is not an official translation.
Original question
Among the reports they attribute to him, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is: “Whoever eats with someone who has been forgiven will be forgiven.”
Answer
Praise be to Allah. No chain of transmission for this is known among the people of knowledge, nor is it in any of the Muslims' books. They merely relate it from Sālim. Its meaning is not correct without qualification, for unbelievers and hypocrites may eat with Muslims.
Source and editorial notes
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 18/381
مجموع الفتاوى
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā
Arabic collated with the cited edition and a second transcription: https://quranislam.github.io/fatwa/ibn-taymiyyah/fatwa291.html. Each individual report and its full reply is preserved within the larger collected question. Diacritics omitted and honorific glyphs expanded. Titles and scope notes are editorial.