Prohibition of Refusal by a Woman when her Husband calls her to his Bed

This chapter touches the intimate life of marriage and the duty spouses owe each other within it. Its single hadith is stern in tone, warning a wife against turning her husband away without cause and leaving him to pass the night resentful. The spiritual heart of it is that marriage carries mutual rights, and withholding them needlessly wounds the bond.

Read it in the broader spirit of the Prophet's teaching, where kindness, consideration and excused needs run both ways between husband and wife. The detailed conditions and exceptions are a matter for scholars; what the believer takes from it is the seriousness of guarding marital harmony and not letting a spouse sleep in anger.