AL-HADITH : Bir alwalidain

1. Narrated AbuHurayrah: The Prophet ( pbuh ) said: Three supplications are answered, there being no doubt about

them; that of a father, that of a traveller and that of one who has been wronged.

(Sunan Abi Dawud), graded as Hasan by Albani

2. Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr:

Allah's Messenger ( pbuh ) said. "It is one of the greatest sins that a man should curse his parents." It was asked (by the people), "O Allah's Messenger ( pbuh )! How does a man curse his parents?" The Prophet ( pbuh ) said, "'The man abuses the father of another man and the latter abuses the father of the former and abuses his mother."

(Bukhari)

3. Ibn Dinar reported that a desert Arab met Abdullah b. 'Umar on the way to Mecca. 'Abdullah greeted him and mounted him upon the donkey on which he had been riding and gave him the turban that he had on his head. Ibn Dinar (further) reported:

We said to him ('Abdullah b. 'Umar): May Allah do good to you, these are desert Arabs and they are satisfied even with meagre (things). Thereupon Abdullah said: His father was loved dearly by 'Umar b. Khattib and I heard Allah's Messenger ( pbuh ) say: The finest act of goodness on the part of a son is to treat kindly the loved ones of his father."

(Muslim)

4. Abu Huraira reported that Juraij was one who was devoted to (prayer) in the temple. His mother came to him. Humaid said that Abu Rafi' demonstrated before us like the demonstration made by abu Huraira to whom Allah's Messenger ( pbuh ) had demonstrated as his mother called him placing her palms upon the eyebrows and lifting her head for calling him and said:

Juraij, it is your mother, so talk to her. She found him at that time absorbed in prayer, so he said (to himself): O Lord, my mother (is calling me) (whereas I am absorbed) in my prayer. He opted for prayer. She (his mother) went back, then came again for the second time and said: O Juraij, it is your

mother (calling you), so talk to me. He said: O Allah. there is my mother also and my prayer, and he opted for prayer. She said: O Allah, this Juraij is my son. I pray to talk to him but he refuses to talk to me. O Allah, don't bring death to him unless he has seen the prostitutes, and had she invoked the curse upon him (from the heart of her heart) he would have been involved in some turmoil. There was a shepherd living near by his temple (the temple where Juraij was engaged in prayer). It so happened that a woman of that village came there and that shepherd committed fornication with her and she became pregnant and gave birth to a child. It was said to her: Whose child is this? She said: He is the child of one who is living in this temple. So there came persons with hatchets and spades. They called Juraij. He was absorbed in prayer and he did not talk to them and they were about to demolish that temple that he saw them and then came to them and they said: Ask her (this woman) what she says. He smiled and then touched the head of the child and said: Who is your father? He (the child) said: My father is the shepherd of the sheep, and when they heard this, they said: We are prepared to rebuild with gold and silver what we have demolished from your temple. He said: No, rebuild it with clay as it had been before. He then went up (to his room and absorbed himself in prayer).

(Muslim)

5. Abu Huraira reported Allah's Apostle ( pbuh ) as saying:

Let him be humbled into dust; let him be humbled into dust. It was said: Allah's Messenger, who is he? He said: He who sees either of his parents during their old age or he sees both of them, but he does not enter Paradise.

(Muslim)

6.  Abu Huraira reported that a person said:

Allah's Messenger, who amongst the people is most deserving of my good treatment? He ( pbuh ) said: Your mother, again your mother, again your mother, then your father, then your nearest relatives according to the order (of nearness).

(Muslim)

7. Narrated from Mu'awiyah bin Jahimah As-Sulami, that Jahimah came to the Prophet ( pbuh ) and said:

"O Messenger of Allah! I want to go out and fight (in Jihad) and I have come to ask your advice." He said: "Do you have a mother?" He said: "Yes." He said: "Then stay with her, for Paradise is beneath her feet."

(Annasa'i)

8. Abdullah bin 'Amru bin al-As (RAA) narrated that the Messenger of Allah ( pbuh ) said:

“Allah’s pleasure results from the parent’s pleasure, and Allah’s displeasure results from the parent’s displeasure.” Related by At-Tirmidhi. Ibn Hibban and al-Hakim graded it as Sahih.

(At-Tirmidzi)

9. Narrated `Abdullah bin `Amr: The Prophet ( pbuh ) said, "Al-Ka`ba'ir (the biggest sins) are: To join others (as partners) in worship with Allah, to be undutiful to one's parents," or said, "to take

a false oath." (The sub-narrator, Shu`ba is not sure) Mu`adh said: Shu`ba said, "Al-Ka`ba'ir (the biggest sins) are: (1) Joining others as partners in worship with Allah, (2) to take a false oath (3) and to be undutiful to one's parents," or said, "to murder (someone unlawfully).

(Sahih Bukhari)

10. It is reported on the authority of 'Abdullah that the Messenger of Allah ( pbuh ) observed: The best of the deeds or deed is the (observance of) prayer at its proper time and kindness to the parents.

(Muslim)