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﴿ فَاسْأَلُوا أَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ إِن كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ ﴾

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Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions: He said (may Allah have mercy on him):

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The Shaykh : In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful:
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send prayers and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions:
He said (may Allah have mercy on him): "And from 'Abdullah ibn Zam'ah (may Allah be pleased with him), who said: The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:
None of you should flog his wife as he flogs a slave لا يجلد أحدكم امرأته جلد العبد
Sahih al-Bukhari 5204
Al-Bukhari narrated it"
:
No one is to be flogged لا يجلد
This sentence is a prohibition, so "la" is the particle of prohibition, and "yajladu" is a present tense verb in the jussive mood due to the particle of prohibition, because the particle of prohibition puts the verb in the jussive mood just as the imperative "lam" does. The commonality between them is that each contains a request: in the particle of prohibition, the request is for abstention, and in the imperative "lam," the request is for action. Therefore, their grammatical effect is the same, which is the jussive mood, because they share this meaning.
Now, his saying:
None of you should flog his wife لا يجلد أحدكم امرأته
Sahih al-Bukhari 5204
means his wife.
And his saying:
the beating of a slave جلد العبد
this is a verbal noun specifying the type. Where is its governing word?
beats يجلد
And we said: it specifies the type because it specified it by the genitive construction:
the beating of a slave جلد العبد
, and the intended meaning of "slave" here is the owned slave.
This is because a man has the right to discipline his wife and he has the right to discipline his slave, but his disciplining of his slave is not like his disciplining of his wife, since he will lie with his wife at the end of the day. How can he discipline her as he disciplines a slave when there will be intimacy between them at the end of the day? Because if he hits her with the hit of a slave, and it is known that hitting a slave is more severe, then repulsion from him and hatred for him will arise in her heart. And in that case, happiness will not be complete between them when they come together. This is part of the wisdom of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him).
Source alathar.net

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