Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever Allah provides with a righteous wife, Allah has assisted him in half of his religion. Let him fear Allah regarding the remaining half.”
Source: al-Mu’jam al-Awsaṭ lil-Ṭabarānī 972
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Suyuti
Imam al-San’ani commented, “He has been helped in half of his religion because the temptations of sexual desire and illicit looking constitute half of what commonly corrupts a morally accountable person’s religion. Thus, if he lowers his gaze and guards his chastity, his religion is protected from this source of corruption. Let him fear Allah regarding the remaining half refers to the desire of appetite… Thus, he instructed him to be mindful of Allah in this matter so that the affairs of his religion may be completed. In this hadith is an indication of the great importance of marriage, and that through it a morally accountable person preserves half of his religion. The division into ‘half’ is not meant as a precise calculation, but rather as an expression of emphasis and magnification.”
Source: al-Tanwīr Sharḥ al-Jāmi’ al-Ṣaghīr 10/235-236
عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ أَنّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ مَنْ رَزَقَهُ اللَّهُ امْرَأَةً صَالِحَةً فَقَدْ أَعَانَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَى شَطْرِ دِينِهِ فَلْيَتَّقِ اللَّهَ فِي الشَّطْرِ الثَّانِي
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قال الصنعاني فقد أعانه على شطر دينه لأن تكليف شهوة الفرج والنظر نصف ما يختل به دين المكلف فإن غض طرفه وحصن فرجه فقد سلم دينه عن هذا الخلل فليتق الله في الشطر الباقي وهو شهوة البطن … فأوصاه بالتقوى فيه ليكمل له أمر دينه وفيه تعظيم شأن النكاح وأنه يحفظ به المكلف نصف دينه وليس التنصيف تحقيقا بل مبالغة
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