and in the ḥadīth, there is a virtue in freeing slaves, and a preference for freeing male slaves over female slaves. The reason for this has been explained by al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar in "al-Fatḥ", so whoever wishes may refer to it. We ask Allāh, the Exalted, to bring a day when Muslims are able to perform this virtue, and this will only happen after they return to their religion with sound understanding and correct practice. By doing so, they will resume Islamic life, and their desired state will be established for them, and perhaps that will be soon.

- "Consider where you stand with him (meaning the husband), for he is your paradise and your hellfire." It was narrated by al-Nasāʾī in "al-Kubrā" (Q 86/2 - ʿAsharat al-Nisāʾ), Aḥmad (4/341 and 6/419), al-Ḥumaydī (355), and from him al-Ḥākim (2/189), and from this al-Bayhaqī (7/291), and Ibn Abī Shaybah in "al-Muṣannaf" (7/47/1), and al-Ṭabarānī in "al-Awsaṭ" (1/170/1) through various chains from Yaḥyá ibn Saʿīd al-Anṣārī that Bashīr ibn Yasār informed him that Ḥuṣayn ibn Miḥṣan informed him about an aunt of his who entered upon the Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) for some need, and he fulfilled her need. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) then said to her: Are you married? She said: Yes. He said: How are you with him? She said: I do not fail him except in what I am unable to do. The Messenger of Allāh (ṣallá Allāhu ʿalayhi wa-sallam) then mentioned it. Al-Ḥākim said: "Authentic, and they did not narrate it." Al-Dhahabī agreed with him, and al-Mundhirī affirmed it (3/74). I say: Its narrators are trustworthy, the narrators of the two Shaykhs, except for Ḥuṣayn ibn Miḥṣan. Ibn Ḥibbān mentioned him in "Thiqāt al-Tābiʿīn", but a group mentioned him among the Companions, and it seems that al-Ḥāfiẓ inclined towards this, as he said in "al-Taqrīb": "Counted among the Companions."