Chapter on the Wife’s Maintenance and Her Allotted Nights
If a woman travels without her husband’s permission, or travels with his permission but for a purely personal errand, she forfeits her right to both maintenance and her share of nights. For if she sets out without his leave, she is sinful like a nāshiz (recalcitrant wife); and even when she departs with his leave for a matter that concerns her alone, the husband is unable to enjoy his marital rights through a cause that originates with her.
Likewise, should he wish her to travel with him and she refuses, she is not entitled to maintenance, for that refusal itself is disobedience.
The same ruling applies if she declines to spend the night in his bed: she loses her claim to maintenance and to her allotted night, because her refusal constitutes the disobedience of a nāshiz.
It is unlawful for a husband to enter the quarters of a co-wife on a night that is not hers except in case of necessity, and likewise by day except for a legitimate need.
If a wife, with her husband’s approval, gives up her turn to a co-wife, or grants it to the husband who then assigns it to another wife, that is permissible, for the right lies with both the husband and the wife, and they have consented to its transfer. Sawda—may Allah be pleased with her—relinquished her night to ʿĀʾishah—may Allah be pleased with her—so it became