Relations With Other Kin

SAYINGS OF THE MESSENGER

(SALLALLAHO-ALAIHE-WA-AALEHI-WASALLAM)

Relations With Other Kin

169.  Sayyidina Sa’eed bin al-‘Aas (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)

          The elder brothers have rights over their younger brothers similar to the rights of a father over his sons. (Bayhaqi, Mishkat)

170.  Sayyidina ‘Ali (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)

          The paternal uncle of a person is a branch of his father. (Tirmizi, al-Jami’as-Saghir)

171.  Sayyidina Baraa’ bin ‘Azib (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)

          The maternal aunt is of the same rank as one’s mother. (Bukhari, Muslim, Tirmizi, Abu Dawood, al-Jami’as-Saghir)

172.  Sayyidina Abu Hurayrah (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)

          Learn enough of your geneology to be able to keep relationships alive because joining ties with relatives brings about love, increases wealth and delays death. (Tirmizi, Mishkat)

173.  Sayyidina Jubayr bin Mut’im (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)

          He who breaks ties of relationship will not enter Paradise. (Bukhari, Muslim, Mishkat)

174.  Sayyidina ‘Abdullah bin ‘Umar (Radi-ALLAHO-An-ho)

          He who reciprocates (the kind gestures of relatives) is not the one who joins ties of relationship but he is the one to join these ties who responds kindly to those who break relationship with him. (Bukhari, Muslim)

Collected  from The Book “Sayings of The Prophet” (Peace Be Upon Him),  Written by Justice Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani &  Published by Darul Ishaat, Urdu Bazaar Karachi,  (collected by: Muhammad Sharif)