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KINDNESS TO ONE'S PARENT'S FRIENDS

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“Abdullah the son of Omar was traveling to Mecca and became tired riding his camel; so he wound a turban around his head and rode his donkey instead.

As he was riding he met a Bedouin Arab and asked him, ‘Aren't you so and so, the son of so and so?’ The man replied, ‘Yes, indeed.’ Thereupon Abdullah gave him the donkey and said, ‘Ride it’ and he gave him his turban saying, ‘Wind it around your head.’ Some of his companions said to him, ‘May Allah forgive you, you have given this Bedouin your easy riding donkey and the turban you wound round your head.’ He said, ‘I heard the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, say, ‘Of the highest virtue is that a person should be kind to the members of a family who had been the friends of one's father before his death.’”

Muslim with a chain up to the son of Dinar narrates the story of Abdullah the son of Omar