The financial maintenance of wealthy children for their poor father
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Question:
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the father is poor and he has wealthy children, is it obligatory for the children to provide financial maintenance for their father, each one according to his means? And if one of them falls short, is it obligatory for the rest to provide the full amount?
Answer:
Yes, it is obligatory for them to provide financial maintenance for their father equally. The cost of their father’s maintenance is distributed among them equally. Yes.
He says: Honorable Shaykh, may Allah grant you success, if the father is poor and he has wealthy children, is it obligatory for the children to provide financial maintenance for their father, each one according to his means? And if one of them falls short, is it obligatory for the rest to provide the full amount?
Answer:
Yes, it is obligatory for them to provide financial maintenance for their father equally. The cost of their father’s maintenance is distributed among them equally. Yes.
Source
الفوزان -أشرطة- شرح زاد المستقنع مع الأسئلة - 087-نفقة الأقارب والمماليك - 17-7-25 هـ — archive.org (59:55)
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