Chapter 232
Remembrance 1 from Chapter 232
A man playing with his wife and joking and talking gently to her
Context
WE RELATE FROM the Ṣaḥīḥs of al-Bukhārī and Muslim that Jābir
related: “The Messenger of Allah
asked me: ‘Have you married a virgin or a woman who has previously been married?’ I replied: ‘I married a woman who has previously been married.’ He said: ‘Why did you not marry a virgin, so that you could play with her and she with you?” [1].
References
[1] Al-Bukhārī (6387), and Muslim (715).