882 – Abū Saʿīd al-Khuḍrī (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, “Among the most despicable people in Allah’s sight in station on the Day of Resurrection is a man who is intimate with his wife and she with him, and then he publicizes her secret.” Recorded by Muslim (1).

Vocabulary of the ḥadīth
– yufḍī ilā imraʾatihi wa tufḍī ilayhi: al-Qurṭubī said that the basic linguistic sense of ifḍāʾ is “physical contact.” Al-Harawī, al-Kalbī and others held that ifḍāʾ means that a man and a woman are alone together even if no intercourse occurs, while Ibn ʿAbbās, Mujāhid and al-Suddī said it refers to sexual intercourse. The editor comments: since intercourse necessarily entails privacy, this last interpretation is preferable.
– sirrahā (her secret): sirr, with a kasrah on the sīn, is whatever a person keeps to himself and conceals from others; its plural is asrār. The word is also applied to intercourse because it is performed in private, and to whatever takes place between the spouses during the act.
– asharra (most evil): Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ stated that the wording occurs thus in this narration. Although grammarians normally reject the comparatives asharr and akhyar, both forms appear in authentic ḥadīths, which demonstrates their permissibility.

Points Derived from the ḥadīth
1 – A husband and wife possess sexual secrets. These are usually the caresses exchanged between them during intercourse or defects in their reproductive organs.