Abu Abdur Rahman Salami says that there was a man among us whose mother kept insisting that he should get married. When he got married, his mother ordered him to divorce his wife (but he refused). Then that man went to Hazrat Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) and asked him about this issue. He replied, "I neither advise you to divorce her nor to keep her, but I heard the Prophet say that the father is the middle gate of Paradise. Now it is up to you whether you protect it or let it go." That man left and divorced his wife.