Foreword

Asma’ bint Abu Bakr related how her foster mother, a believer in polytheism (shirk), had come to her during the period of the treaty of al-Hudaybiyyah. Concerned that her foster mother was a polytheist, she addressed the Prophet, ‘O Messenger of God, my idolatrous (mushrik) mother has come to me and she wants something from me. Should I give it to her?’ ‘Yes. Treat her well,’ replied the Prophet. HADITH OF AL-BUKHARI AND MUSLIM. 73 A man who has two wives, but does not give them equal treatment, will find half his body lost on the Day of Judgement. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI