[18] Punishment for the one who insults his wife (i.
[18] Punishment for the one who insults his wife (i.e., likening the wife as a mother -Al-Zahaar) عَلِيُّ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ وَ عِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَصْحَابِنَا عَنْ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ عَنْ عُثْمَانَ بْنِ عِيسَى عَنْ سَمَاعَةَ عَنْ أَبِي بَصِيرٍ عَنْ أَبِي عَبْدِ اللَّهِ ( عليه السلام ) قَالَ سَمِعْتُهُ يَقُولُ جَاءَ رَجُلٌ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ ظَاهَرْتُ مِنِ امْرَأَتِي قَالَ اذْهَبْ فَأَعْتِقْ رَقَبَةً قَالَ لَيْسَ عِنْدِي شَيْءٌ قَالَ اذْهَبْ فَصُمْ شَهْرَيْنِ مُتَتَابِعَيْنِ قَالَ لَا أَقْوَى قَالَ اذْهَبْ فَأَطْعِمْ سِتِّينَ مِسْكِيناً قَالَ لَيْسَ عِنْدِي قَالَ فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) أَنَا أَتَصَدَّقُ عَنْكَ فَأَعْطَاهُ تَمْراً لِإِطْعَامِ سِتِّينَ مِسْكِيناً قَالَ اذْهَبْ فَتَصَدَّقْ بِهَا فَقَالَ وَ الَّذِي بَعَثَكَ بِالْحَقِّ مَا أَعْلَمُ بَيْنَ لَابَتَيْهَا أَحَداً أَحْوَجَ إِلَيْهِ مِنِّي وَ مِنْ عِيَالِي قَالَ فَاذْهَبْ فَكُلْ وَ أَطْعِمْ عِيَالَكَ Ali Bin Ibrahim, from his father, and a number of our companions, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Usman Bin Isa, from Sama’at, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Abdullah -asws , said, ‘I heard him -asws saying, ‘A man came over to Rasool-Allah -saww , so he said, ‘O Rasool-Allah -saww !
I have done Zahaar from my wife’ (said you are like my mother). He -saww said: ‘Go, so emancipate a neck’. He said, ‘There isn’t anything with me’. He -saww said: ‘Go, so Fast for two months consecutively’. He said, ‘I am not strong enough’. He -saww said: ‘Go, so feed sixty poor ones’. He said, ‘There isn’t with me (enough money)’. So Rasool-Allah -saww said: ‘I -saww shall give charity on your behalf’. So he -saww gave him some dates for feeding sixty poor ones.
He -saww said: ‘Go, so give in charity with it’. So, he said, ‘By the One Who -azwj Sent you -saww with the truth, I do not know anyone between these mountains anyone more needy for it than myself and my family’. He -saww said: ‘So, go, eat and feed your family’.
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