or perfectly accommodating to her husband; rather, as the Prophet ﷺ instructed, take benefit from her while accepting the crookedness that remains.

Moreover, if you dislike one trait of hers you will be pleased with another, so balance this with that and be patient. Allah the Exalted says, “If you dislike them, it may well be that you dislike something while Allah places within it abundant good.” (Al-Nisāʾ 4:19).

2/274 — ʿAbd Allah ibn Zamʿah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that he heard the Prophet ﷺ giving a sermon. He mentioned the she-camel and the man who hamstrung her, whereupon the Messenger of Allah said, “When their most wretched rose up…” — a burly, aggressive, powerful man within his clan stepped forward and hamstrung her. He then spoke about women and admonished concerning them, saying, “One of you goes so far as to whip his wife the way a slave is whipped, yet perhaps he will share her bed at the end of the same day.” He also reproved them for laughing when someone passes wind, saying, “Why does one of you laugh at something he himself does?” Agreed upon.

The word ʿārim — with an undotted ʿayn and a rāʾ — means a wicked, corrupt person. His phrase inbaʿatha means “he rose up quickly.”

[Explanation]
The author — may Allah have mercy on him — relates that ʿAbd Allah ibn Zamʿah (may Allah be pleased with him) heard the Prophet ﷺ delivering a sermon while mounted on his camel. The Prophet’s sermons fell into two types: regular and occasional; the regular sermons were like the sermons of