Celebrating the completion of Sahih al-Bukhari

Question

Question: In keeping with custom, a “Bukhari Sharif” celebration (marking Sahih al-Bukhari, i.e. the completion of its study) is being held, and forty rupees are taken from every student; yet some students are such that they do not even have breakfast and the like. This celebration has been held for about three years. Moreover, for not giving the rupees to the head of the students’ society or the officer in charge of funds, some members of the society say: “I will strike your name off the society.

Answer

If one is granted success in some good deed and, by way of gratitude for it, friends and the poor are fed something, that is not impermissible. It is well known that when Hazrat ‘Umar ﵁ had memorised Surat al-Baqara, he slaughtered a camel and fed his relatives and kin. But in the situation set out in the question there is greater ugliness.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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