Chapter: "Chapter on Showing Mercy to the Young." Explanation of the Hadith: (None of us is a believer unless he shows mercy to our young and respects the rights of our elders...)

The Shaykh : This hadith is like a detail, or part of a detail, of a hadith that has already passed, and he titled it with a new chapter, saying in the chapter following the previous one:
"The Chapter on Showing Mercy to the Young Child"
And he mentioned the aforementioned hadith:
From Amr ibn Shu'ayb, from his father, from his grandfather, that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: .
Do you remember? I think this hadith had already come up with us. So now it is like a practical translation of the phrase: .
Among the ways of showing mercy to the young is that this fruit is offered to the small child before the elder, because the small child remains more eager for something new than one who is older than him. So this is part of showing mercy to the young. Yes.
The questioner: Is it permissible to apply this by analogy if we want to add candies or chocolates for the children present and start with the children?

The Shaykh : No, this is contrary to the Sunnah. Sugar is abundant and plentiful. The Sunnah is the novel and new thing, which is not known except for a month, two months, or three months at most. As for the usual distribution, I do not know if it has passed or will come in explicit hadiths: There is no organization or arrangement here; rather, this is the aforementioned etiquette regarding new fruit. The point is that this second chapter seems to hint and indicate that that etiquette, which began by giving the new fruit to the young, is part of what falls under showing mercy to the young, which the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged in this hadith: .