ld told IS officials "she tried to persuade him to leave IS and flee the city", according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It said he shot his mother on Wednesday "in front of hundreds of people" in a piazza near a post office.
"She was executed under the pretext of 'inciting her son to leave the Islamic State and escaping together to the outside'," it said.
The woman was described as being in her forties. She lived in the neighbouring town of Tabaqa but worked in the city.
Raqqa is the self-proclaimed capital of IS's so-called "caliphate", where it imposes its harsh interpretations of Islamic law.
This week, Sky News revealed IS was employing scientists and weapons experts to train jihadists at a "jihadi technical college" in the Syrian city to carry out attacks in Europe.
Exclusive footage shows the terror group can now recommission thousands of missiles assumed by Western governments to have been redundant through old age.
extremist group has been accused of carrying out mass killings, torture, rape and sexual slavery.
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