Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) says: We said, "O Messenger of Allah! You send us and then we come to a people and they do not host us, so what do you think (i.e., what should we do)?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "If you come to a people and they arrange for you what a guest deserves, then accept it. If they do not, then take from them the right of hospitality as much as a guest deserves."

Sayyiduna Abu Shurayh Khuzai (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Hospitality is for three days, and special effort in hospitality is for one day and one night. It is not permissible for a Muslim to stay with his brother to the extent that he puts him in sin. The Companions asked, "O Messenger of Allah! How would he put him in sin?" He (peace and blessings be upon him) replied: He stays with him while he has nothing to offer him.

Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: We were on a journey with the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) when a man came to him riding a she-camel and began looking right and left. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Whoever has extra riding provision should give it to the one who has no riding provision, and whoever has surplus travel provisions (beyond his own need) should give it to the one who has no travel provisions. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned various types of wealth, until we thought that none of us had any right to anything surplus to his own need.

Iyas bin Salamah narrates from his father, may Allah be pleased with him, that he said: We set out with the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, for a battle, and there we suffered hardship (meaning a shortage of food and drink) to the extent that we intended to slaughter our riding camels. Then, on the order of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, we gathered our provisions and spread out a leather sheet, and everyone’s provisions were collected on it. Salamah, may Allah be pleased with him, said: I stretched out to measure it, and found it to be only as much space as a goat occupies when it sits, while we were fourteen hundred men. Then we all ate to our fill, and after that, each of us filled his own provision bag. Then the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: Is there water for ablution? A man brought a little water in a bucket, so he, peace and blessings be upon him, poured it into a pit, and all fourteen hundred of us performed ablution with that water, letting it flow freely. After that, eight more men came and asked: Is there water for ablution? The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said: The water for ablution has run out.