Being Dutiful To Parents

Book Title	Being Dutiful To Parents
Book Author	Imam al-Bukhari
Total Pages	150
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Birr al-Walidayn: Being Dutiful to Parents

Being Dutiful To Parents – Birr al-Walidayn by Imam Muhammad ibn Isma’il Al-Bukhari (D. 256/870)

Translated by Mohammed Siddiq and Muhammad Ammar Salim Edited with Commentary by Shaykh Yusuf Shabbir

Book Contents

Being dutiful to parents
Chapter: the speech of Allah the exalted: ‘and we instructed man to be good to his parents.’
Chapter: being dutiful to a polytheist parent as long as they do not instruct one to sin
Chapter: the mother is most deserving of best companionship, then the father
Chapter: jihad with the permission of muslim parents
Chapter: the person whose sustenance is expanded due to maintaining ties of kinship and the greatest family tie is the bond of parents
Chapter: the supplication of parents
Chapter: disobedience of parents nullifies actions
Chapter: repaying parents
Chapter: disobedience of parents is from the major sins
Chapter: the deplorable nature of someone who finds his parents [in old age] and does not enter paradise [through dutifulness to them]
Chapter: the parent’s gaze upon their child
Chapter: kindness to someone with whom one’s father maintained
Ties
Maintaining ties of kinship
The chapters on maintaining the ties of kinship
Chapter: the sin of someone who severs ties of kinship
Chapter: the person who is blessed in his sustenance due to maintaining his ties of kinship
Chapter: Allah the exalted maintains ties through his grace with the person who maintains his ties of kinship
Chapter: the muslim who disobeys his parents will not enter paradise initially
Chapter: the person who maintains ties of kinship is not someone who [merely] reciprocates
Chapter: whoever maintains his ties of kinship, Allah the exalted maintains ties with him
Chapter: mercy does not descend upon a people who have among them a person who severs the ties of kinship
Chapter: the sin of the person who severs the ties of kinship
Chapter
Chapter: the believer’s fear that his deeds will be nullified whilst he is unaware, and disobedience of parents is one of the nullifiers of deeds
[chapter] [chapter]
Chapter: do not be angry, nor display your anger to your parents
Chapter: do not hurt your parents [even] with a word
Chapter: people should be safe from the wrong of a muslim, especially if they are his parents
Chapter: the permissibility to take retribution for injustice, except for the son or daughter, for their concern is benevolence [to their parents]
Chapter: it is from benevolence and affection that you explicitly mention to whom you love that you love them, especially the parent
Chapter
Chapter: disputes in this world will be repeated for reckoning on the day of resurrection, so be wary of them, especially with parents
Chapter: turmoils will increase towards the end of time, especially disobedience of parents
Chapter
Chapter: the punishment in this world for the person who severs ties of kinship
Chapter: the virtue of someone who maintains ties with an oppressive relative
Chapter: the virtue of spending on and being charitable to relatives
Chapter: enjoining ties of kinship and the prohibition of severing them
Chapter: the nearest then the nearest [relatives]
Chapter: from amongst the signs of the final hour is that severing of ties of kinship will be widespread
Chapter: ties of kinship are kept moist with their wetness [i.e. maintained adequately]
Chapter: the warning for someone who gives preference to his wife over his parents
Appendix 1: narrations in ṣaḥīḥ al-bukhārī not transmitted in this book
Appendix 2: narrations in al-adab al-mufrad not transmitted in this book
Appendix 3: chains of transmission and biography of narrators
Bibliography