Islamic Fiqh > Marriage and family > Couple life in the Sunna: daily benevolence > The spouses rights: conjugal night, obedience and outings
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Updated on 25 September 2026 at 3:23 PM
The fiqh of married life defines the reciprocal rights of the spouses: what the husband owes his wife (staying with her at night, conjugal relations, refraining from withdrawal without her consent), and what the wife owes her husband (obedience in what is lawful, answering his call to bed, abstaining from voluntary fasting and from admitting visitors without his permission). The four schools are compared on every point, with their Qur'anic and prophetic evidence and their classical references. The series closes with the rights shared by both spouses and with fairness in the division of nights among co-wives.