CHAPTER: The virtue of one who takes care of an orphan.
Narrated Abdullah ibn Abbas: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If anyone has a female child, and does not bury her alive, or slight her, or prefer his children (i. e. the male ones) to her, Allah will bring him into Paradise. Uthman did not mention male children .
Narrated Abu Saeed al-Khudri: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: If anyone cares for three daughters, disciplines them, marries them, and does good to them, he will go to Paradise.
The tradition mentioned above has also been transmitted by Suhail through a different chain of narrators to the same effect. This version has: “three sisters, or three daughter, or two daughter, or two sisters”.
Narrated Awf ibn Malik al-Ashjai: The Prophet صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم said: I and a woman whose cheeks have become black shall on the Day of Resurrection be like these two (pointing to the middle and forefinger), i. e. a woman of rank and beauty who has been bereft of her husband and devotes herself to her fatherless children till they go their separate ways or die.