With the Hadith
"Chapter on What a Man Can Take from His Son's Wealth"
We greet you all, dear listeners, everywhere, in a new episode of your program "With the Hadith," and we begin with the best greeting: peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
It is mentioned in Al-Sindi's footnote, in explaining Sunan Ibn Majah "with modification" in the chapter "Chapter on What a Man Can Take from His Son's Wealth."
Hisham ibn Ammar narrated to us, Isa ibn Yunus narrated to us, Yusuf ibn Ishaq narrated to us, from Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir, from Jabir ibn Abdullah, that a man said: "O Messenger of God, I have wealth and children, and my father wants to take all my wealth." He said: "You and your wealth belong to your father."
(Yajtah) means: to eradicate it, meaning: to spend it on his needs so that nothing remains for me. The apparent meaning of the hadith is that the father can do with his son's wealth as he pleases, how can he when he made the son himself like a slave as an exaggeration, but the jurists permitted this in cases of necessity. Al-Khattabi said it is similar to spending on him if he is excused and needs it for frequent expenses, otherwise the excess of wealth is sufficient for him, and spending from the principal eradicates the origin and destroys it, so the Prophet - peace and blessings be upon him - did not excuse him and did not allow him to stop spending and said to him: You and your wealth belong to your father, meaning that if he needs your wealth, he takes from it according to his need as he takes from his own wealth.
Dear listeners:
The rulings of Islam are comprehensive for all aspects of life and do not stop at the limits of prayer and fasting. If you talk about international relations, you will find rulings related to them, and if you talk about marital life, you will find rulings related to it, and if you talk about the relationship of a person with himself, his creator, and other people, you will find rulings related to it. In this hadith, we are in the process of explaining the relationship of the son with his father, through this Sharia ruling, as it is impossible for the matter to reach the point where the self and wealth - which are the most precious things a person owns - are in exchange for the father's satisfaction, except after a long stage of respect, appreciation, and obedience from the son to his father, all of which are Sharia rulings. It is sufficient for us to know that God Almighty has given a status to the father and mother that no status can match, through His saying: "And your Lord has decreed that you worship none but Him, and that you be kind to parents." So what status after this status? And what honor after this honor?
However, the matter - O Muslims - is no longer so, that is, not according to the rulings of Islam, and this is only because Muslims have moved away from the realities of these rulings and are immersed in a dry material life devoid of all mercy, so neither the daughter takes into account her mother in her speech and actions, nor the son cares about his father and his old age, except for those on whom my Lord has mercy. These atmospheres are only because we have moved away from the rulings of God, by the actions of our rulers who have created burdens and worries for us in our lives, so why - after that - do we remain silent about the existence of those who want to eliminate our existence? And why do we not work to implement the law of our Lord, in which is our happiness in both worlds?
Dear listeners, and until we meet you with another prophetic hadith, we leave you in God's care, and peace, mercy, and blessings of God be upon you.
