الأم

الأم

Honouring the parents is obligatory for a Muslim, even if they are sinful or unbelievers; the mother takes precedence, following the hadith 'your mother, then your mother, then your mother, then your father'. ¹ Marriage to a mother by blood or by milk is forbidden by consensus. ¹ Maintenance is due to parents with no earnings or property; custody goes first to a Muslim mother; the mother has three inheritance cases, a sixth, a third, and a third of the remainder in the two named cases. ²³ A parent is not retaliated against for killing a child, a mother is not cut off for stealing her child's property, and most jurists do not accept one's testimony for the other. ³⁴