Sayyidina Abu Darda (RA) reported that a man came to him and said, “I have a wife and my mother command’s him to divorce her.’ He said, “I heard Allah’s Messenger say, ‘The father is the central door of the doors of paradise. So, if you like demolish this door or protect it.’” Sufyan sometimes said, ‘My mother’ and at other times, ‘my father.’
[Ahmed 21776]