Chapter: A Comprehensive Discussion of Conjugal Relations

A husband is obliged to be equitable toward his wives in the allocation of nights: each one of them is entitled to a full day and night, and he may not give more than that to any one of them except with the consent of them all. He is not to lodge them together in a single house unless they agree. A wife’s right to her turn is not nullified by her illness or menstruation; he must stay with her for the day and night that are hers. The share that is strictly obligatory concerns the night, not the daytime. He must maintain justice among them when he is sick just as he does when he is well, unless he becomes too weak to move, in which case he remains where his illness confines him; once he recovers, he resumes the usual rotation. And if one of them is with him in