according to one of the two opinions, someone who accuses a woman whose intellect and religion are incomplete of unlawful sexual intercourse is subject to the prescribed punishment if her husband is chaste. This is also one of the two positions transmitted from Ahmad.

Obligatory protective jealousy is that which is entailed by forbidding disgraceful conduct, while recommended protective jealousy is that which prompts recommended measures of protection. As for jealousy without grounds for suspicion—jealousy concerning something permissible in which there is nothing suspicious—it is something Allah does not love. Indeed, it is forbidden when it leads to abandoning what Allah has commanded. Thus, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

“Do not prevent Allah’s female servants from attending Allah’s mosques, though their homes are better for them.”

As for women’s jealousy of one another, this is not something they are commanded to feel. Rather, it is a natural disposition, like grief over misfortunes. It is reported in the two Sahīh collections that when the bowl was broken, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said:

“Eat; your mother has become jealous.”

‘Ā’ishah said:

“Would not someone like me be jealous over someone like you?”

She also said:

“I was never as jealous of any woman as I was of Khadījah.”