Islam Guidance

Wife’s Rights

Hasan Zayyat of Basrah reports: My friend and I went to the presence of Imam al-Baqir

while he was sitting in a well-decorated room with a purple mantle on his

shoulder. He had trimmed his beard and blackened his eyes with kohl. I was full

of questions. Realizing this, the Imam said, “Hasan! You and your friend may

come to me tomorrow.” I said, “Very well, may I be your ransom!” The next day,

we went to see him. He was sitting on a mat and wearing coarse clothes. He

turned to my friend and said, “O brother of Basrah! When you came to me

yesterday, I was in my wife’s room. It was her turn. The room was hers as well

as all the articles. She had made up herself for me and I had to make up myself

for her. Don’t give way to gloomy thought about me.” My friend said, “May I be

your ransom. By Allah, something passed in my mind but Allah removed it now and

I know that truth lies in what you said.”

[ Al-Kafi: 448/6, H 13.]

Taken from: AHLULBAYT ISLAMIC MISSION

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