Prioritizing Parents or Children in Financial Maintenance
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Question:
Honorable Shaykh, does the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) hadith and the hadith of the people of the cave not indicate that the mother and father should be prioritized over the children?
Answer:
No, no, it is not obligatory. The children are prioritized over them, because they are the branch of the one providing maintenance.[Al-Baqarah 2:233] Therefore, the maintenance of the children is obligatory before that of the parents.
Honorable Shaykh, does the Prophet’s (peace and blessings be upon him) hadith and the hadith of the people of the cave not indicate that the mother and father should be prioritized over the children?
Answer:
No, no, it is not obligatory. The children are prioritized over them, because they are the branch of the one providing maintenance.
Upon the father is
وَعَلَى الْمَوْلُودِ لَهُ
Source
شرح بلوغ المرام من أدلة الأحكام [ صالح الفوزان ]، باب النفقات — islamhouse.com (56:50)
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