Weak relative Rickart objects generalize relative Rickart objects in
abelian categories. We study how such a property is preserved or
reflected by fully faithful functors and adjoint pairs of functors.
Various consequences are obtained for (co)reflective subcategories,
adjoint triples of functors and endomorphism rings of modules. In
particular, for a right

-module

with endomorphism ring

,
we prove that if

is a weak self-Rickart right

-module, then

is a weak self-Rickart right

-module, while the converse
holds provided

is a flat left

-module or

is a

-local-retractable right

-module.