عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه قال: جاء رجل إلى رسول الله ﷺ فقال: يا رسول الله، من أحق الناس بحسن صحابتي؟ قال: (أمُّك) قال: ثم من؟ قال: (أمك)، قال: ثم من؟ قال: (أمك)، قال: ثم من؟ قال: (أبوك)، وفي رواية قال: (أمك، ثم أمك، ثم أمك، ثم أباك، ثم أدناك أدناك)
85 - Parents’ and relatives’ rights
Abu Hurayrah narrated that:
1. A man came to God’s Messenger (peace be upon him) and asked: ‘Of all people, who has the first claim to my good companionship?’ 2. The Prophet said: ‘Your mother’. The man asked: ‘Who comes next?’ The Prophet said: ‘Next is your mother’. The man asked: ‘And who comes next?’ The Prophet said: ‘Then your mother’. 3. The man again asked: ‘Who comes next?’ The Prophet said: ‘Next is your father’. And in another version, the Prophet said: ‘Your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father, 4. then the nearest and the nearest’.
Related by al-Bukhari, 5971; Muslim (his version) 2548.
Summary of Meaning
One of the Prophet’s companions puts the question about the first claimant to his kindness and good treatment. The Prophet answered that his mother is the one who deserves this. He repeated this three times before mentioning the father on the fourth occasion. Then other relatives, according to the closeness of kinship
