Chapter: Advice with regard to women

Woman is like a rib. When you attempt to straighten it , you would break it. And if you leave her alone you would benefit by her , and crookedness will remain in her.Woman is like a rib. When you attempt to straighten it , you would break it. And if you leave her alone you would benefit by her , and crookedness will remain in her.

A hadith like this is reported by another chain of narrators.

Woman has been created from a rib and will in no way be straightened for you ; so if you wish to benefit by her , benefit by her while crookedness remains in her. And if you attempt to straighten her , you will break her , and breaking her is divorcing her.

He who believes in Allah and the Hereafter, if he witnesses any matter he should talk in good terms about it or keep quiet. Act kindly towards woman, for woman is created from a rib, and the most crooked part of the rib is its top. If you attempt to straighten it, you will break it, and if you leave it, its crookedness will remain there. So act kindly towards women.

A believing man should not hate a believing woman ; if he dislikes one of her characteristics , he will be pleased with another.

A hadith like this has been narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him).