Rights in Islam
What Islam gives people a right to — parents, spouses, children, orphans, neighbours, workers and the people you trade with. Every ruling here names the Quranic verse or the hadith it comes from, and says where the scholars differ.
Rights in Islam — the whole map, with the evidence
Where rights come from in Islam, the two kinds they are divided into, and the map of every relationship the section covers — parents, spouse…
Source: Quran 4:1, 4:36, 17:23-24, 2:228, 4:19, 49:13, 5:8, 2:188; Sahih al-Bukhari 1, 13, 30, 6018, 6951; Sahih Muslim 1218, 2564, 2577, 2586; Sunan Ibn Majah 2443 (graded sound) Home and familyThe rights of parents — what is owed, and what is not obedience
The verse that puts parents next to the worship of Allah, the hadith that names the mother three times, the one case in which a parent is no…
Source: Quran 17:23-24, 31:14-15, 46:15, 29:8, 4:36, 2:83; Sahih al-Bukhari 2227, 2620, 3004, 5971, 5973, 5976, 6273; Sahih Muslim 87, 1003, 1004, 1631, 2548, 2551, 2552; Sunan Abi Dawud 5142 (graded hasan) Home and familyThe rights of husband and wife — both sides of one verse
The verse that states both rights in one sentence, what maintenance actually covers, what the mahr is and whose it is, the hardest verses re…
Source: Quran 2:228, 4:19, 4:34, 4:35, 4:128, 30:21, 65:6-7, 2:233, 4:4, 4:20-21; Sahih al-Bukhari 5185, 5186, 5204, 6446; Sahih Muslim 1218, 1468, 1469, 1829; Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1162, 3895 (graded sound); Sunan Abi Dawud 2142 Neighbours and societyThe rights of a neighbour — and the religion nobody asked about
Jibril kept advising about the neighbour until the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم thought he would be made an heir. Three times "by Allah he doe…
Source: Quran 4:36; Sahih al-Bukhari 2463, 2566, 6014, 6015, 6016, 6018, 6020; Sahih Muslim 46, 47, 2624, 2625 Neighbours and societyThe rights of an orphan — the warning, and the boundary beside it
"They are only consuming fire into their bellies" — and beside it, two fingers held together in Paradise. What an orphan's property is, when…
Source: Quran 4:2, 4:6, 4:8, 4:10, 4:36, 2:220, 6:152, 17:34, 89:17, 93:6, 93:9, 107:1-2; Sahih al-Bukhari 2766, 5304, 6005; Sahih Muslim 89, 2983 Neighbours and societyThe ties of kinship — and who the hadith says is not keeping them
The one who keeps ties is not the one who repays in kind — he is the one who restores a tie that was cut. What silah rahmi means, who it cov…
Source: Quran 4:1, 4:36, 13:21, 13:25, 16:90, 17:26, 47:22-23; Sahih al-Bukhari 2067, 5984, 5987, 5988, 5991, 5995; Sahih Muslim 593, 2554, 2555, 2556, 2558 Neighbours and societyThe rights of non-Muslims — the verses, both of them
Justice that enmity cannot bend, a neighbour whose religion nobody asked, a mother visited under a treaty, a funeral he stood for, and the h…
Source: Quran 60:8-9, 5:8, 4:135, 2:256, 6:108, 5:5, 29:46, 49:13, 17:70; Sahih al-Bukhari 1312, 2620, 3166, 6914; Sahih Muslim 1003; Sunan Abi Dawud 3052 (graded sound) Work, trade and moneyThe rights of a worker — and the hadith that is not from Bukhari
Three men Allah Himself opposes on the Day of Judgement, and one of them hired a worker and did not pay him. The wage agreed before the work…
Source: Quran 28:26-27, 65:6, 4:29, 83:1-3, 2:188; Sahih al-Bukhari 30, 2114, 2227, 2270; Sahih Muslim 1661; Sunan Ibn Majah 2443 (graded sound); Sunan Abi Dawud 3628 (graded sound) Work, trade and moneyThe rights in a loan — the longest verse in the Quran is about writing it down
The longest verse in the Quran is not about prayer or fasting. It is about writing a loan down. And the evidence runs both ways: the borrowe…
Source: Quran 2:275, 2:278-280, 2:282, 4:58; Sahih al-Bukhari 832, 2287, 2289, 2387, 2404; Sahih Muslim 1560, 1564, 1886, 2588; Sunan Abi Dawud 3628 (graded sound); Sunan Ibn Majah 2410 (graded sound) Work, trade and moneyThe rights in trade — an entire surah opens with woe, over a thumb on the scale
Surah al-Mutaffifin opens an entire surah with woe, and the offence it names is small: short measure. The Prophet put his hand into a pile o…
Source: Quran 2:188, 2:275, 4:29, 6:152, 17:35, 55:9, 83:1-3; Sahih al-Bukhari 2058, 2079, 2087, 2140, 2142, 2287, 2597; Sahih Muslim 102, 1412, 1513, 1532, 1605, 1607; Jami at-Tirmidhi 1209 (graded good); Sunan Abi Dawud 3451 (graded sound)Everything on this page is in the app too, and works offline.
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