Rights of Children
- Children have the right to be fed, clothed, and protected until they reach adulthood.
- Children must have the respect, to enjoy love and affection from their parents.
- Children have the right to be treated equally, vis-a-vis their siblings in terms of financial gifts.
A tradition reports:
Prophet Muhammad was reported as saying: "Be fair and just in terms of the gifts you offer your children. If I was to give preference to any (gender over the other) I would have preferred females over males (in terms of giving gifts)." —Abdulrahman Al-Sheha, Women In the Shade of Islam- Children have the right to education. A saying attributed to Muhammad relates: "A father gives his child nothing better than a good education." —Hadith collected by Tirmidhi and Al-Bayhaqi
- Parents are recommended to provide adequately for children in inheritance.
- Umar in a Sunni tradition summed up some of the rights of children in the following anecdote:
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