Women for Marriage

The Tābi’ī, Mohammad Ibn Husain – may Allāh have mercy on him – used to say:

اَلّلهُمّ ارْزُقْنِي اِمْرَأةً تَسُرُّنِي إذَا نَظَرْتُ ، وَ تُطِيعُنِي إذَا أَمَرْتُ، وَ تَحْفَظُنِي إذَا غِبْتُ

Allahummar-zuqni imratan tasur-runi idha nadhartu wa tuti’uni idha amartu wa tahfadhni idha ghibtu

“O Allāh! Provide me with a woman that will make me happy when I look at her, obeys me when I command her and protects me (i.e., my honor and property) when I am absent.”

[Bahjat ul-Majālis wa Unsul Mu’jālis, 183 of Al-Imām ibn Abdil-Barr (may Allāh have mercy on him)]

TN: Tābi’ee [plural Tābi’ūn] are followers or successors, of the generation of Muslims who followed the Sahābah [Companions of the Messenger of Allāh صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ].