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The Crown and the Weight [wives]
It is reported that ‘Abd Al-Rahmân b. Abzâ – Allâh be pleased with him – said:
A righteous woman with a man is like a great gold-leafed crown on the head of a king, and a bad woman with a man is like a heavy weight upon an old man.
Ibn Abî Al-Shaybah, Al-Musannaf article 17428.