85 - Parents’ and relatives’ rights

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’.