What are a child’s rights over their parents?

From the Sabīl library · scholarly review pending

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08Their rights

A good name, and a known lineage.

Maintenance — food, clothing, shelter and medicine, until they can provide for themselves.

Teaching — their religion first, then what will let them stand on their own.

Justice between them — in gifts, in attention and in affection. “Fear Allah, and be just between your children.”

Mercy — “He who does not show mercy is not shown mercy.”

Not to be cursed, nor supplicated against in anger — an hour may fall in which such a prayer is answered.

Bukhārī, Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ — the ḥadīth of an-Nu‘mān ibn Bashīrـؓ; Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ

Du‘ā for offspring

رَبِّ هَبْ لِي مِنْ لَدُنْكَ ذُرِّيَّةً طَيِّبَةً، إِنَّكَ سَمِيعُ الدُّعَاءِ

Rabbi hab lī min ladunka dhurriyyatan ṭayyibah, innaka samī‘ud-du‘ā’

My Lord, grant me from Yourself a goodly offspring; indeed You hear all supplication.

Q 3:38

When a person dies, their deeds end but for three — ongoing charity, knowledge benefited from, and a righteous child who prays for them.

Muslim · ṣaḥīḥ

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From The Newborn Child · Open the full title

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The Newborn Child