Next level love for Mothers.
1. Be dutiful to your mother, it will be compensation of the sin.
2. When a Tabiyee answered his mother louder than her voice
3. Muhammad ibn Sireen (Tabiyee) and his respect for the mother.
4. The Best deed closer to Allah is dutifulness to the mother.
5. Abu Huraira and behavior with his mother.
6. What a way of expressing love.
7. Tik tok mamas vs the great mothers of Islam.
8. Charity on the behalf of mother who died.
9. Treat your mother’s kindly.
10. Paradise is beneath her feet
1. Be dutiful to your mother, it will be compensation of the sin.
A man came to the Prophet (ﷺ) and said: “O Messenger of Allah! I have been afflicted by a tremendous sin. Is there any repentance for me?” He said: “Do you have your mother?” The man said: “No.” He said: “Do you have any maternal aunts?” The man said: “Yes.” He said: “Then be dutiful to them.”
Reference : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 1904
2. When he answered his mother louder than her voice
It is narrated from Abdullah bin Awn (Tabiyee).
أن أمه نادته فأجابها فعلا صوتُه صوتَها، فأعتق رقبتين .
His mother called him and he answered her in a louder voice than hers, so he freed two slaves.”
[Siyar a’lam al-Nubala, v.6, p.366].3. Muhammad ibn Sireen (Tabiyee) and his respect for the mother.
Hafsa bint Sireen said: I have never seen my brother (Muhammad ibn Sireen) raising his voice against our mother, He would talk with her very softly.
at-Tabqaat al Kubra 7/198, chain authenticated by Sh Zybair Ali Zai, Maqalaat vol 3
4. The Best deed closer to Allah is dutifulness to the mother.
Ibn Abbas said:
“I don’t know of a deed closer to Allah, Exalted and Majestic, other than dutifulness to the mother.”
Grade : Sahih (Al-Albani)
Reference : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad
5. Abu Huraira and behavior with his mother.
When Abu Huraira entered his land, he shouted out in his loudest voice, “Peace be upon you, mother, and the mercy of Allah and His blessing!” She replied, “And peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessing.” He said, “May Allah have mercy on you as you raised me when I was a child.” She replied, “My son, may Allah repay you well and be pleased with you as you were dutiful towards me when I was old.”
Reference : Al-Adab Al-Mufrad 14
6. What a way of expressing love. Feel that you do the same with your loved one and think the loved one is doing the same.
Imam Abu Abdullah Al-Mazari Al-Asuli (RA) (530 AH) narrates that when he set out for Yemen, his mother said to him,
“I give you the promise of Allah that every night when the moon is in the middle of the sky (i.e. 13th moon), you should see towards it and observe it. I will do the same thing due to my love for you. It is possible that our sights may meet on the moon and my yearning may be relieved.”
Imam Al-Mazari (RA) said, “I fulfilled my mother’s promise by doing the same thing.” (Rawdat al-I’ilam li Ibn al-Azraq al-Gharnati: 880/2 Via Faizan Faisal.)
7. Tik tok mamas vs the great mothers of Islam.
Mother of Sufyan Thawri (d 161 h) said to him:
“Son! Seek knowledge, I will support you by sewing clothes. O my son, when you have written down ten Ahadeeth, look and see if you notice an improvement in the way you walk, in your level of patience, and in your degree of self-dignity. For if you do not see any such improvement, then know that your knowledge does not benefit you (rather there is) harm of that knowledge”.
Tareekh Jurjan : 492 via Faizan Faisal .
8. Charity on the behalf of mother who died.
Narrated Ibn `Abbas:
A man said to Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) , “My mother died, will it benefit her if I give in charity on her behalf?” The Prophet (ﷺ) replied in the affirmative. The man said, “I have a garden and I make you a witness that I give it in charity on her behalf.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 2770
9. Treat your mother’s kindly.
Miqdam bin Ma’dikarib, may Allah be pleased with him, narrated that:
حَدَّثَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عَمَّارٍ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ بَحِيرِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، عَنْ خَالِدِ بْنِ مَعْدَانَ، عَنِ الْمِقْدَامِ بْنِ مَعْدِيكَرِبَ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ قَالَ “ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُوصِيكُمْ بِأُمَّهَاتِكُمْ – ثَلاَثًا – إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُوصِيكُمْ بِآبَائِكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُوصِيكُمْ بِالأَقْرَبِ فَالأَقْرَبِ ” .
Allah’s Messenger said: “Allah enjoins you to treat your mother’s kindly”-three times- “Allah enjoins you to treat your fathers kindly, Allah enjoins you to treat the closest and the next closest kindly.”
Sunan Ibn Majah 3661
10. Paradise is beneath her feet
It was narrated from Mu’awiyah bin Jahimah As-Sulami, that Jahimah came to the Prophet (ﷺ) 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.”
Reference : Sunan an-Nasa’i 3104, Al-Tabaraani (1/225/2).
Grade: Sahih by Darussalam and al Albani, and by others such as Al-Haakim (4/151) and al-Dhahabi agreed with him, as did al-Mundhiri, 3/214.
The love of sahaba, tabiyeen and great scholars with their mothers was next level.