Al-Kafi 10159

Translation

From him, from Muhammad Bin Isa, from the one who narrated it, from Shihaab Bin Abd Rabbihi who said, ‘I said to Abu Abdullah^asws, ‘What are the rights of the woman upon her husband?’ He^asws said: ‘Closed down her hunger, and veil her nakedness, and not to spoil her face. So when he does that, by Allah^azwj, he has fulfilled her rights’. I said, ‘So (what about) the oil (for the hair & body)?’ He^asws said: ‘Intermittently day and not a day’. I said, ‘So (what about) the meat?’ He^asws said: ‘During every three (days), so it would come to be ten times in the month, no more than that’. I said, ‘So (what about) the dye?’ He^asws said: ‘And the dyeing is during every six months, and clothe her during every year with four clothes, two clothes for the winter and two clothes for the summer, and it is no befitting if one impoverishes his house from three things – the hair oil, and the vinegar, and the oil, and provide her with a handful (of food), for I^asws provide myself with it, and my^asws family; and let each human being from them measure his own food intake, so if he so desires it he eats it, and if he so desires it, he gifts it, and if he so desires it, he gives in charity with it; and there should not happen to be any fruits during the year except that he feeds is family from these, and he should not leave it if there happens to be the Eid (festival) with them, the extra in the meal, that he should make for them something which he does not make for them in the rest of the days’.

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