🌻10 Examples of How Rasulullah (ﷺ) Treated Children (Part 1)
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The sunnah contains many examples of how Rasulullah (ﷺ) dealt with children.
Why is this important? Because he’s our uswah, our role-model, our example to follow. Many of his companions met him once or twice, saw him doing something once or twice, and as a result, would keep doing that thing until they died. Not because he told them to, but because they loved him, and sought to follow him as much as possible.
We should also try and follow him as much as we can.
On to the examples.
*Anas ibn Malik’s Ten Years of Service*
I served the Prophet for ten years, I lived with him for ten years and not once did he rebuke me. Not once did the word “uff” come from his mouth. He never said to me, “why did you do this?” or “why didn’t you do that?” : (Bukhari 5691,Muslim 2309)
Anas ibn Malik was a well known scholar among the sahaba. His mother gifted him to Rasulullah (ﷺ) while he was a young child, in order to give him the best possible upbringing and Islamic education.
Personally, I feel this hadith serves as a general-purpose, all-encompassing rule (and guideline) by which to follow with child-raising. We learn some important lessons from this, which we can apply to our own families:
Don’t rebuke them (or tell them off).
Don’t appear exasperated or frustrated in front of them.
Don’t ask them why they did something, or didn’t do something. (They don’t know why.)
Anas ibn Malik was also a young child at the start of his service of the messenger of Allah (ﷺ).
However, Rasulullah (ﷺ) didn’t just let things go; when children did something wrong, he did not simply let it slide, but he told them:
Abu Huraira reported that Hasan ibn ‘Ali (radiallahu anhum) took one of The dates of the sadaqa and put it in his mouth, whereupon the Prophet (ﷺ) said: *Leave it, leave it, throw it; don’t you know that we do not eat the sadaqa?* (Bukhari and Muslim)
Note that, as mentioned in another narration, he physically removed the date from Hassan’s mouth — he didn’t just tell him not to do it.
*His Daughter Fatima*
A longer hadith clues us into a key habit of rasulullah (ﷺ):
‘A’isha, the Umm al-Mu’minin, said, “I have not seen anyone who more resembled the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in words or speech or manner of sitting than Fatima.” ‘A’isha continued, “When the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, saw that she had come, he would greet her and then he stood up for her, kissed her, took her hand and brought her forward and made her sit in his place. When the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, visited her, she greeted him, stood up for him, and kissed him. She came to the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, in his final illness and he greeted her, kissed her, and told her a secret. She wept. Then he confided something else to her and she laughed. I said to the women, ‘I see that this woman is superior to other women, yet she is one of them. First she wept and then she laughed.’ I asked her, ‘What did he say to you?’ She replied, ‘I would be telling a secret.’ When the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, died, Fatima said, ‘He confided to me, *“I am dying,”* so I wept. Then he confided to me, “ *You will be the first of my family to join me,”* so I was happy and pleased at that.’” (Al-Adab Al-Mufrad)
He always greeted his daughter, kissed her, and gave her his spot to sit in. This is a habit of his — so much so that when he couldn’t do this (before he died), she immediately became concerned with his situation. This is a habit that we should all strive to adopt.
*Kissing Children*
Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) kissed Al-Hasan bin ‘Ali while Al-Aqra’ bin Habis at-Tamim was sitting beside him. Al-Aqra said, “I have ten children and I have never kissed anyone of them,” Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) cast a look at him and said, “ *Whoever is not merciful to others will not be treated mercifully.”* (Bukhari and Muslim)
Kissing children (and grandchildren) is also an easy way to show them affection and make them feel loved.
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