Narrated Abdur Rahman al-Himyari: A companion of the Prophet ﷺ reported him as saying: When two people come together to issue an invitation, accept that of the one whose door is nearer in neighbourhood, but if one of them comes before the other accept the invitation of the one who comes first.

Ibn Umar reported the Prophet ﷺ as sayings: When the evening meal is brought before one of you and the congregational prayer is also ready, he should not get up until he finishes (eating). Musaddad’s version adds: When the evening meal was put before Abdullah bin Umar, or it was brought to him, he did not get up until he finished it, even if he heard call to prayer (just before it), and even if he heard the recitation of the Quran by the leader-in-prayer.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Prophet ﷺ said: Prayer should not be postponed for taking meals nor for any other thing.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: Abdullah ibn Ubaydullah ibn Umayr said: I was with my father in the time of Ibn az-Zubayr sitting beside Abdullah ibn Umar. Then Abbad ibn Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr said: We have heard that the evening meal is taken just before the night prayer. Thereupon Abdullah ibn Umar said: Woe to you! what was their evening meal? Do you think it was like the meal of your father?

Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out from the privy and was presented to him. They (the people) asked: Should we bring you water for ablution? He replied: I have been commanded to perform ablution when I get up for prayer.

Narrated Salman al-Farsi: I read in the Torah that the blessing of food consists in ablution before it. So I mentioned it to the Prophet ﷺ. He said: The blessing of food consists in ablution before it and ablution after it. Sufyan disapproved of performing ablution before taking food. Abu Dawud said: It is weak.

Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ came out from the valley of a mountain where he had eased himself. There were some dried dates on a shield before us. We called him and he ate with us. He did not touch water.

Abu Hurairah said: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ never expressed disapproval of food; if he desired it, he ate it, and if he disliked it, he left it alone.

Narrated Wahshi ibn Harb: The Companions of the Prophet ﷺ said: Messenger of Allah ﷺ we eat but we are not satisfied. He said: Perhaps you eat separately. They replied: Yes. He said: If you gather together at your food and mention Allah's name, you will be blessed in it. Abu Dawud said: If you are invited to a wedding feast before you, do not take it until the owner of the house (i. e. the host) allows you (to eat).

Jabir bin Abdullah said that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say: When a man enters his house and mention Allah’s name on entering and on his food, the devil says: You have no place to spend the night and no evening meal; but when he enters without mentioning Allah’s name on entering, the devil says: You have found a place to spend the night, and when he does not mention Allah’s name at his food, he says: You have found a place to spend the night and an evening meal.