English Translation

Yahya ibn Sa'id, from Bahz ibn Hakim ibn Mu'awiya ibn Haydah al-Qushayri: my father told me, from my grandfather, who said: I said, "O Messenger of Allah, our wives - what may we do with them and what must we avoid?" He said, "Your tilth; come to your tilth however you wish, so long as you do not strike the face nor revile her, and feed her when you are fed, and clothe her when you clothe yourself, and do not forsake her except within the house. How could it be otherwise, when you have had intimate access to one another, except regarding what is lawful concerning them?"