Narrated 'Aishah (RA): Hind daughter of 'Utbah - wife of Abu Sufyan - came to Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) and said, "O Allah's Messenger, Abu Sufyan is a miser who does not give me and my sons enough maintenance, except what I take from his wealth without his knowledge. Is there any blame on me for doing this?" He replied, "Take from his wealth what is reasonable and enough for you and your sons." [Agreed upon] .

Narrated Tariq al-Muharibi (RA): We arrived at al-Madinah when Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) was standing on the Minbar addressing the people and saying, "The hand of the giver is the upper one, and spend first on those who are dependent on you: your mother and father, your sister and brother, then your relatives in order of their closeness to you." [Reported by an-Nasa'i. Ibn Hibban and ad-Daraqutni graded it Sahih (authentic)] .

Narrated Abu Hurairah (RA): Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: "A slave is entitled to his food and clothing, and he should be burdened except with the work that he is capable of doing." [Reported by Muslim] .

Narrated Hakim bin Mu'awiyah al-Qushairi on his father's authority (RA): I asked, "O Allah's Messenger, what is the right of the wife of one of us upon her husband?" He replied, "That you should give her food when you eat, and clothe her when you clothe yourself, and do not strike her on the face and do not revile her." [The narrator narrated the rest of the Hadith that has been mentioned in the chapter on the treatment of wives] .

Narrated Jabir (RA): The Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) - in the Hadith of pilgrimage which is long - said in regard to women, "They (women) have rights over you (the men) to provide them with their sustenance and clothing in a reasonable manner." [Muslim reported it] .

Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar (RA): Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: "It is enough for a person to be considered sinful, that he neglects those whom he is responsible to sustain." [Reported by an-Nasa'i] . Muslim has this wording: "...to withhold (food) from the one whose food he possesses."

Narrated Jabir (RA) in a Hadith which he attributed to the Prophet ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) regarding a pregnant (woman) whose husband died: "She has no maintenance rights." [al-Baihaqi reported it. Its narrators are reliable, but al-Baihaqi said, "The correct narration is that which is Mawquf (a saying of a Companion)"] . It was established that no maintenance is due (to a woman who was divorced with three pronouncements) in the Hadith of Fatimah (RA) daughter of Qais, which has preceded. [Reported by Muslim] .

Narrated Abu Hurairah (RA): Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) said: "The upper hand is better than the lower one, and one of you should spend first on those he is responsible to provide for, lest a woman would say, 'Feed me or divorce me.'" [Reported by ad-Daraqutni, and its chain of narrators is Hasan (good)] .

Narrated Sa'id bin al-Musaiyab regarding a man who finds nothing to spend on his wife: "They are to be separated." Reported by Sa'id bin Mansur, from Sufyan, from Abu az-Zinad, from Sa'id bin al-Musaiyab. He said, "I asked Sa'id (bin al-Musaiyab), 'Is this Sunnah?' And he replied, 'Yes, it is Sunnah!'" [This Hadith is a strong Mursal (missing link after the Tabi'i] .

Narrated 'Umar: He wrote (letters) to the commanders of the armies regarding some men (soldiers) who have been absent from their wives, that they should impose upon them to spend on their wives or divorce them; and if they divorce them they should then send the maintenance which they have withheld. [ash-Shafi'i reported it, then al-Baihaqi with a Hasan (good) chain of narrators] .