Sayyiduna Usamah bin Sharik (may Allah be pleased with him) said: I was present with the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at the Farewell Hajj, and he said: "Your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, then your nearest relatives, degree by degree."
Al-Tabarani recorded it, and its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih, except Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal, who is thiqah (trustworthy) and thabt (firmly reliable). (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Some hadiths of this kind have already passed in the Book of Zakah, in the chapter on the upper hand being better than the lower hand.