Question
Please provide the reference for the following Hadith:
‘If a man gets a daughter grows her up properly and gives her an education and gets her married Jannah becomes binding on him’
Answer
Sayyiduna Jabir (radiyallahu’anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) said:
‘Whoever has three daughters, whom he cares for, educates and gets them married, will get Jannah.’
Someone asked: What if he has only two daughters?
Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) replied: ‘Even if he has only two.’
(Al-Mu’jamul Awsat, Hadith: 4757. Also recorded in the following sources with different wording: Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah, Hadith: 25943, Al-Adabul Mufrad of Imam Bukhari, Hadith: 78 and Musnad Ahmad, vol. 3 pg. 303. Also see Majma’uz Zawaid, vol. 8 pg.15)
And Allah Ta’ala Knows best,
Answered by: Moulana Muhammad Abasoomar
Checked by: Moulana Haroon Abasoomar