Lady Asma bint Abi Bakr (may Allah be pleased with both of them) says: Zubair bin Al-Awwam (may Allah be pleased with him) married me (who was the cousin of the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him), and he had no wealth, nor any slave, nor anything else except for a horse. I used to graze his horse and do all the work for the horse and train it, and I would also crush date stones for his camel, graze it, give it water, sew the bucket, and knead the flour. But I could not bake bread well, so the Ansari women neighbors would bake my bread, and they were very loving women. Asma said: I used to carry date stones on my head from the land of Zubair (may Allah be pleased with him), which the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had given him as a grant, and that land was two miles from Madinah. (A mile is six thousand handspans, a handspan is twenty-four fingers, a finger is six barley grains, and a farsakh is three miles.) One day, I was bringing date stones from there when on the way I met the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and several of his companions. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) called me and then made a sound to make the camel kneel so that I could ride behind him. I felt shy and modest. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "By Allah, carrying the load of date stones on your head is harder than riding with me." (Meaning, you endure such a burden, so why not ride with me?) Lady Asma (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Later, Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) gave me a servant, and she started doing all the work for the horse, as if he had set me free.

Umm al-Mu'mineen Safiyyah bint Huyayy (may Allah be pleased with her) says that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was in i'tikaf. I came to visit him at night. I spoke with him, then when I stood up to return, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) also stood up with me to see me off, and my house was in the dwelling of Usamah bin Zaid (may Allah be pleased with him). On the way, two men from the Ansar met us. When they saw the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), they began to walk quickly. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Wait, this is Safiyyah bint Huyayy." Both of them said, "Subhan Allah, O Messenger of Allah!" (meaning, could we ever think ill of you?) The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Satan flows through the human body like blood, and I feared that he might cast an evil thought into your hearts (and thus you would be ruined because of it)."

Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Beware! No man should stay with a married woman at night except if she is accompanied by her husband or a mahram.

Narrated from Sayyiduna Uqbah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: Avoid going to women. An Ansari man said, "O Messenger of Allah! What about the husband's brother?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "The husband's brother is death." (Meaning, the real danger is from the husband's brother.) Sayyiduna Laith bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) used to say that in the hadith where it is mentioned that the husband's brother is death, it refers to the husband's relatives and close ones, such as the husband's brother or his paternal cousin (all those relatives of the husband with whom marriage is permissible for the woman are included among the husband's brothers, and she should observe veiling from them, except for the husband's father, grandfather, or his son, as they are mahram and there is no need to observe veiling from them).

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin Aas (may Allah be pleased with him) that some people from Banu Hashim went to Asma bint Umais, and Sayyiduna Abu Bakr Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) also went, and at that time Asma was married to Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him). They saw them and disliked their coming. Then it was mentioned to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and he said, "I have not seen anything wrong." The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, "Allah has purified Asma from any evil act." Then the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) stood on the pulpit and said, "From today, no man should enter the house of a woman whose husband is absent (i.e., not at home), except that he brings one or two men with him." (By this he meant his own men, about whom it is impossible to think that they would go to a woman of ill character.)

Umm al-Mu’minin Aisha Siddiqa (may Allah be pleased with her) says that a mukhannath (effeminate man) used to come to the wives of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and they considered him among those who have no interest in women (and in the Qur’an, it is permitted for such people to appear before women). One day, the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) came to one of his wives, and he (the mukhannath) was describing a woman, saying:“When she comes forward, she comes with four folds, and when she turns her back, eight folds become visible.”The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said:“He recognizes those who are here (i.e., he likes and distinguishes the beauty and ugliness of women); do not let him come to you.”(Sayyida Aisha says) So they stopped him from coming.

`Sayyiduna Abu Musa (may Allah be pleased with him) reports that a house in Madinah caught fire at night. When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) was informed, he said: This fire is your enemy, so when you go to sleep, extinguish it.