Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage

Al-Kāfi - The Book of Marriage َّدُ بْنُ يَحْيَى عَنْ سَلَ٠َةَ بْنِ الْخَطَّابِ عَنْ سُلَيْ٠َاعَةَ عَنِ الْحَذَّاءِ عَنْ عَ٠ٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللهِ (عَلَيْهِ السَّلا٠) قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ (صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِه) النِّسَاءُ أَرْبَعٌ جَا٠ُرْبِعٌ وَخَرْقَاءُ ٠4.

Muhammad ibn Yahya has narrated from Safmah ibn al-Khattab from Sulayman ibn Sama‘ah from al-Hadhdha’ from his uncle, ‘Asem from Abu ‘Abdillah (a.s.) who said, “The Messenger of Allah (sw) has said, ’Women are of four kinds: Goodness in all respects, a child bearing fountain, a dimwitted destructive one and feed for parasites.”’