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

Ibn Umar reported the Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم 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.