About this guide

Muslim Wife maps the qualities of a good wife to both modern relationship guidance and the example of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.

We distilled a set of 14 ideal behaviours of a wife from contemporary relationship coaching, then searched the major hadith collections for moments where the Prophet ﷺ personally demonstrated each one with his wives, or guided women about it. Each behaviour page shows the modern guidance alongside its Prophetic example.

Currently 44 hadith are linked. The library grows as the work continues.

Hadith are drawn from the six major collections (Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Jami' at-Tirmidhi, Sunan Abi Dawud, Sunan an-Nasa'i, Sunan Ibn Majah) and link to sunnah.com for the full record and chain. Modern guidance is distilled and presented without endorsing any particular source.

This guide is part of a small family of Islamic relationship-guidance sites:

• Muslim Husband - the same approach written for husbands.
• 11 Wives - a deep dive into the Hadith of Umm Zar' (Sahih al-Bukhari 5189), where eleven women describe their husbands in some of the most poetic Arabic ever recorded.

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