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Is it permissible to have the walima say 2 days after nikkah or even a week later ?
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Re: Walima
& Peace diya01,
Walima in other words is ‘halaala’. Walima is done next day after married couple spend their first night together. While nikkah minimum persons (four witnesses) required but for walima, married couple should invites relatives, neighbours, friends etc., so that they may be aware from one’s marriage.
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^ please provide reference brohter LKK.
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walima is just a 'declaration of marriage' and **NOT **the 'declaration of consummation of marriage'. :) it can be done on any day after nikaah...usually the next day.
since nikaah can be done in front of only a few people but Islam wants you to make an announcement to the society that you are now married...this cuts the possibility of 'secret marriages'..your marriage must be announced in the society you live in so people KNOW that you have taken the vows.
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^ so it does not have to be the next day ?
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^ so it does not have to be the next day ?
EXACTLY...my friend's brother got married on October 31st and his walima was on November the 2nd. it's perfectly alright!
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Peace diya01 & pakistanimard,
Usually, ‘Walima’ took place on third day right after ‘baraat’ (as seen in marriage ceremony held in Pakistan and abroad) and never heard that ‘Walima’ is taken place afer a week or month. Scholars have different views on that but majority of these scholars agreed that ‘Walima’ should be prepared after the marriage has been consummated as it the practice of the Prophet Muhammad :saw2. if we see the hadiths than we’ll came to know that the ‘Walima’ of marriage on first day is considered as confirmed (haq), on second day as “Maruf” (it is good) and or third day as just showing off. Prophet Muhammad 
stayed at a place for not more than three days and there He got married and given (invited others) for ‘Walima’. So He set an example and there is no confusion about when the ‘walima’ should be prepared.
**Book ‘Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah)’ of Sahih Bukhari. Hadith No. 89.
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Narrated Anas: The Prophet stayed for three days at a place between Khaibar and Medina, and there he consummated his marriage with Safiyya bint Huyay. I invited the Muslims to a banquet which included neither meat nor bread. The Prophet ordered for the leather dining sheets to be spread, and then dates, dried yogurt and butter were provided over it, and that was the Walima (banquet) of the Prophet. The Muslims asked whether Safiyya would be considered as his wife or as a slave girl of what his right hands possessed. Then they said, “If the Prophet screens her from the people, then she Is the Prophet’s wife but if he does not screen her, then she is a slave girl.” So when the Prophet PBUH proceeded, he made a place for her (on the camel) behind him and screened her from people.
Book ‘Wedlock, Marriage (Nikaah)’ of Sahih Bukhari. Hadith No. 95
Narrated Anas bin Malik: I was ten years old when Prophet Muhammd PBUH arrived at Medina. My mother and aunts used to urge me to serve the Prophet regularly, and I served him for ten years. When the Prophet died I was twenty years old, and I knew about the order of Al-Hijab (veiling of ladies) more than any other person when it was revealed. It was revealed for the first time when Allah’s Apostle had consummated his marriage with Zainab bint Jahsh. When the day dawned, the Prophet PBUH as a bridegroom and he invited the people to a banquet, so they came, ate, and then all left except a few who remained with the Prophet PBUH for a long time. The Prophet got up and went out, and I too went out with him so that those people might leave too. The Prophet PBUH proceeded and so did I, till he came to the threshold of 'Aisha’s r.a., dwelling place. Then thinking that these people have left by then, he returned and so did I along with him till he entered upon Zainab r.a., and behold, they were still sitting and had not gone. So the Prophet again went away and I went away along with him. When we reached the threshold of 'Aisha’s r.a., dwelling place, he thought that they had left, and so he returned and I too, returned along with him and found those people had left. Then the Prophet PBUH drew a curtain between me and him, and the Verses of Al-Hijab were revealed.
Book ‘Foods (Kitab Al-Atimah)’ of Sunan Abu-Dawud. Hadith No. 3736.
Narrated Zubayr ibn Uthman: The Prophet said: The wedding feast on the first day is a duty, that on the second is a good practice, but that on the third day is to make men hear of it and show it to them. Qatadah said: A man told me that Sa’id ibn al-Musayyab was invited (to a wedding feast on the first day and he accepted it. He was again invited on the second day, and he accepted. When he was invited on the third day, he did not accept; he said: They are the people who make men hear of it and show it to them.