It is narrated from Sayyiduna Mikhmar bin Haydah (may Allah be pleased with him) that he said: O Messenger of Allah, I stay away from water for a month at a time and my wife is with me; may I have (marital) relations with her? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes." I said: O Messenger of Allah, I stay away for several months at a time. He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Yes, even if you stay away for ten years." From here begins the account of the names of the pure wives of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him): in the Jahiliyyah and in Islam; the virgins and the previously married; in whose marriage they had been before; their number; from whom he had children; with whom the marriage was consummated and with whom it was not; who was divorced before consummation; who was divorced afterwards; who was divorced and then taken back; who died while married to him (peace and blessings be upon him); whom he married in Makkah; whom in Madinah or in other places; who were from Quraysh; who were from the allied tribes; who were from other Arab tribes; who were from the Children of Israel; who were from among Arab captives; which women he (peace and blessings be upon him) proposed to but did not marry; what the times of the marriages were; which of the wives remained married to him (peace and blessings be upon him) until his passing; and an account of the non-Arab slave women.