Tatfful (entering another's meal uninvited)

Tatfful is entering another person's place to eat his food without his leave or knowledge of his consent. ¹

The tufayli is one who enters a people without being invited. ¹ A guest is one who attends another's meal by invitation or with his known consent; the tufayli is his opposite. ² A dhayfan is one who comes with a guest as an intruder; a fudooli acts for another without leave or authority, and the intrusion is most common in material things. ²

The Malikis, Shafiis and Hanbalis say it is forbidden to attend another's meal uninvited and without knowledge of consent, and it makes one a sinner if repeated, on the hadith «whoever is invited and does not come has disobeyed God and His messenger; whoever enters uninvited enters as a thief and leaves as a plunderer». ² The Shafiis add that it is intrusion when a scholar or a Sufi is invited and his followers come without the host's leave. ²

All agree that the testimony of a habitual intruder is rejected, since he eats what is unlawful and does base things that take away manliness; the repetition is required because he may have a doubt of leave until the host forbids him. ³