Chapter: Regarding honoring one’s parents.

Abu Hurairah reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: A son does not repay what he owes to his father unless he buys him and emancipates him if he finds him in slavery.

Narrated Abdullah ibn Umar: A woman was my wife and I loved her, but Umar hated her. He said to me: Divorce her, but I refused. Umar then went to the Prophet ﷺ and mentioned that to him. The Prophet ﷺ said: Divorce her.

Bahz bin Hakim on his father's authority said that his grandfather said: I said: Messenger of Allah! to whom should I show kindness? He replied: Your mother, next your mother, next your mother, and then comes your father, and then your relatives in order of relationship. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: If a man asks his slave whom he freed for giving him property which is surplus with him and he refuses to give it to him, the surplus property which he refused to give will be called on the Day of resurrection as a large bald snake. Abu Dawud said: Aqra means a snake whose hair of the head were removed on account of poison.

Kulaib bin Manfa'ah said that his grandfather told then he went to the Prophet ﷺ and said: Messenger of Allah! to whom should I show kindness? He said: Your mother, your sister, your brother and the slave whom you set free and who is your relative, a due binding (on you), and a tie of relationship which should be joined.

Abdullah bin Amr (bin al-As) reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: A man’s reviling of his parents is one of the grave sins. He was asked: Messenger of Allah! How does a man revile his parents? He replied: He reviles the father of a man who then reviles his father, and he reviles a man’s mother and he reviles his.

Narrated Abu Usayd Malik ibn Rabiah as-Saeedi: While we were with the Messenger of Allah! ﷺ a man of Banu Salmah came to Him and said: Messenger of Allah is there any kindness left that I can do to my parents after their death? He replied: Yes, you can invoke blessings on them, forgiveness for them, carry out their final instructions after their death, join ties of relationship which are dependent on them, and honour their friends.

Ibn Umar reported the Messenger of Allah ﷺ as saying: One of the finest acts of kindness is for a man to treat his father’s friends in a kindly way after he has departed.

Narrated Abut Tufayl: I saw the Prophet ﷺ distributing flesh at Ji'irranah, and I was a boy in those days bearing the bone of the camel, and when a woman who came forward approach the Prophet ﷺ, he spread out his cloak for her, and she sat on it. I asked: Who is she? The people said: She is his foster-mother.

Narrated Umar ibn as-Saib: One day when the Messenger of Allah ﷺ was sitting, his foster-father came forward. He spread out of a part of his garment and he sit on it. Then his mother came forward to him and he spread out the other side of his garment and she sat on it. Again, his foster-brother came forward. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ stood for him and seated him before himself.