ANSWER:

The elders are right! One should do this only in privacy or when he is with his children and not in front of others. 

It is sunnah as well as charity to put a morsel of food in one’s wife’s mouth. Elders in our family say this can only be done alone and not when you are having meals together as extended family or joint family. Kindly advise.

Commentary on Hadeeth, Fiqh of the family |