✍️Works of Ibn Abi al-Dunya

Al-Ayyal is in two volumes

العيال ويقع في مجلدين

Author: أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن عبيد بن سفيان بن قيس البغدادي الأموي القرشي المعروف بابن أبي الدنيا (المتوفى: 281هـ) (d. 281)

About this work

هذا الكتاب "العيال" لابن أبي الدنيا يتناول موضوع النفقة على العيال وحقوقهم، ويحتوي على أحاديث وفتاوى تتعلق برعاية الأولاد والبنات وكيفية تربيتهم وتعليمهم، بالإضافة إلى الحديث عن النفقة على الزوجات وأهمية العدل بين الأبناء. يركز الكتاب أيضًا على الإحسان إلى الأبناء والبنات وتربيتهم على الصلاة وحفظ القرآن، مع ذكر فضائل الإحسان إلى العيال وثواب الله على ذلك.

Translation

This book, “The Children” by Ibn Abi Al-Dunya, deals with the topic of spending on children and their rights. It contains hadiths and fatwas related to caring for boys and girls and how to raise and educate them, in addition to talking about spending on wives and the importance of justice between children. The book also focuses on being kind to sons and daughters and raising them to pray and memorize the Qur’an, mentioning the virtues of being kind to one’s children and God’s reward for that.

Topics covered

Spending on the children is for the son of Abi Al-Dunya
Chapter on spending on children and the reward for spending on them
Chapter on justice between children and settlement between them
Chapter on Aqeeqah regarding the newborn and what is done with it when it is born
Chapter on being kind to girls
Door to marrying girls
A chapter on kindness to children and love for them
Chapter on compassion for children and compassion between them
Chapter on carrying, smelling and kissing children
Chapter on teasing and caressing children
Door to delivery on boys
Chapter on teaching boys to pray
Chapter on teaching children the Qur’an
Chapter on a man teaching his family, teaching his son, and disciplining them
Chapter on God Almighty protecting the believer in his descendants after him
The door to expanding on children
Chapter: Intercourse with the wife is a charity and her intercourse is for the sake of the child
Chapter: A woman gets used to her spindle
Chapter on a woman guarding herself in her home and leaving her adornments to anyone other than her husband
Chapter on praying for the newborn
Chapter on the goodness of the boy
Chapter on being happy with the lack of children
Chapter on being kind to spouses, being compassionate towards them, and being courteous to them
Chapter on a woman’s rights over her husband and the reward for spending on her
Chapter: What a woman may take from her husband’s house

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