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.
Related Quranic Verses
Anything good you spend of your wealth should go to parents and the near of kin.
(2: 215)
We have enjoined upon man to show kindness to his parents: in pain did his mother bear him, and in pain did she give him birth. His bearing and weaning takes thirty months.
(46: 15)
Your Lord has ordained that you shall worship none but Him, and that you must be kind to your parents. Should one of them, or both, attain to old age in your care, never say ‘Ugh’ to them or chide them, but always speak gently and kindly to them, (23) and spread over them humbly the wings of your tenderness, and say, ‘My Lord, bestow on them Your grace, even as they reared and nurtured me when I was a child’.
(17: 23-24)
