…O Lord, grant us wives and children who will be the comfort of our eyes, and make us good examples for the righteous… (al-Qur’an 25:74)
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THE PROPHET 
said: ‘He who is blessed with a child should give him/ her a good name and teach him/her good manners’. (Bayhaqi)
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THE PROPHET said: ‘There is no better gift a parent can give his child than good manners’. (Tirmidhi)
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THE PROPHET said: ‘If anyone cares for three daughters, gives them a good upbringing, marries them (to good husbands) and treats them well, he will enter Paradise’. (Abu Dawud)
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THE PROPHET said: ‘The best money is that which a man spends on the members of his family’. (Muslim)
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THE PROPHET said: ‘If anyone separates a mother from her child, Allah will separate him from those he loves on the Day of Resurrection’. (Tirmidhi, Darimi)
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ALLAH’S MESSENGER once kissed his grandson Hasan while a man named al-Aqraʿ ibn Habis al-Tamimi was sitting beside him. The man said, ‘I have ten children and I have never kissed any of them.’ The Prophet looked at him (sadly) and said, ‘Whoever does not show mercy will not be shown mercy’. (Bukhari)
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NUʿMAN ibn Bashir 
said that his father once brought him to the Messenger of Allah and said, ‘I have given a slave boy (as a gift) to this son of mine.’ The Prophet asked, ‘Have you done the same for all of your children?’ and he replied that he had not. The Prophet then said, ‘Fear Allah, and be fair to all your children’. (Bukhari, Muslim)
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MUʿADH said: ‘Allah’s Messenger instructed me to do ten things (three of which were); ‘... Spend on your children according to what you can afford. Do not hesitate to discipline them in the course of their upbringing, and instil in them the fear of Allah’. (Ahmad)