What is the ruling on maintaining family ties?

Question:
What is the ruling on maintaining family ties?

Answer:
It is obligatory. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

Anyone who wants to have his provision expanded and his term of life prolonged should maintain ties of kinship.

من أحب أن يبسط له في رزقه وأن ينسأ له في أثره فليصل رحمه

, and he said in another authentic hadith regarding the family tie:

If anyone joins it, I shall join him, and if anyone cuts it off, I shall cut him off.

من وصلها وصلته، ومن قطعها بتته

. And Allah says:

So would you perhaps, if you turned away, cause corruption on earth and sever your [ties of] relationship?

فَهَلْ عَسَيْتُمْ إِنْ تَوَلَّيْتُمْ أَنْ تُفْسِدُوا فِي الْأَرْضِ وَتُقَطِّعُوا أَرْحَامَكُمْ ۝

[Muhammad 47:22]

Those are the ones whom Allah has cursed, so He made them deaf and blinded their sight [Muhammad:22-23], and in another hadith:

Anyone who cuts off relationship from his nearest relatives will not enter Paradise.

لا يدخل الجنة قاطع رحم

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(Lectures on the Explanation of Bulugh al-Maram, Book of the Comprehensive)

Source binbaz.org.sa

The Arabic text is copied verbatim from the original source, without any edits.

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