Ahkam an-Nisa is a compendium of religious rulings related to women by Imām Ibn Al-Jawzī Al-Hanbalī. A book rare & very old in which the author, compiled hadiths concerning the jurisprudence of purification and the five pillars of Islam according to the Hanbali school.

But also, on essential rules for women, such as: the virtue of staying in one's home, the obligation to obey one's husband, the rewards of obeying one's husband, the reward of raising pious children, the warning against backbiting and slander, the prohibition against imitating men, the mourning of the wife upon the death of her husband, and the waiting period to remarry, etc.

Notably, a final chapter mentioning different accounts regarding 70 virtuous women of this community, among them:

• Sarah, the wife of Ibrahim, peace be upon him
• Asiya, the wife of Pharaoh
• The daughter of Pharaoh
• Mary, Daughter of ‘Imran
• The Wives of the Prophet
• Female companions of the Prophet...