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.
Abu ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Nufayl
Abu ‘Abd al-Raḥmān ‘Abdullāh ibn ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb ibn Nufayl belonged to the ‘Adiy branch of the Quraysh. He embraced Islam when he was young. He migrated to Madinah with his father when he was still a child below the age of puberty. At the time of the Battle of Uḥud, he was too young to fight. His first military effort was the Encounter of the Moat, i.e. al-Khandaq. He also participated in the pledge under the tree. Zaynab bint Maẓ‘ūn, who was ‘Uthmān ibn Maẓ‘ūn’s sister, was his mother and the mother of his sister, Ḥafṣah the Mother of Believers. He narrated much useful information from the Prophet, and also from his father‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, Abu Bakr, ‘Uthmān, ‘Alī, Bilāl, Ṣuhayb and other companions of the Prophet. He issued many fatwas and narrated a large number of hadiths. He died in Year 74 AH 694 CE.
