Hadiths on Merits of Being Dutiful to One's Parents

This category brings together 8 hadiths on being dutiful to one's parents. It contains the rank of the mother: “Your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father”, the fact that a son cannot repay his father unless he finds him a slave, buys him, and emancipates him, and Allah's pleasure tied to the parents' pleasure. Added to these are the finest form of dutifulness, maintaining relations with the friends whom one's father loved, the case of Uways ibn ‘Āmir, and the order to be dutiful to them rather than go out to fight without parental permission.