Stories from Early Islam — Page 152
152 When he asked for the fourth time, the Holy Prophet saw replied, ‘Your father and after him other relations according to their degrees of kinship’. When Makkah fell to the Muslims, and the Holy Prophet saw entered the city, Abu Bakr brought his father, a very old man, to meet him. The Holy Prophet saw said to Abu Bakr, ‘Why did you put your father to trouble by making him come to me? I would have gladly gone to see him myself ’. He has also said, ‘Most unfortunate is the person who is granted an opportunity to serve his parents yet he fails to win Paradise through kindness towards them’.