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Salam alaikum, I have recently read this: "A good man treats women with honor." (Tirmidhi) Do you know if this is an authentic hadith? Salam alaikum, NUha
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All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad 
is His slave and Messenger.
We have not across a Hadeeh with this wording, neither in Sunan At-Tirmithi nor in any other books of Hadeeth. However, if you mean the Hadeeth which reads: “The best amongst yourselves are the best to their wives, and I am the best to my wives.”; then this is a Saheeh [sound] Hadeeth narrated on the authority of ‘Aa’ishah 
and reported by At-Tirmithi, and it was also reported by Ibn Maajah on the authority of Ibn ‘Abbaas 
.
Indeed, many authentic Ahaadeeth were reported about the virtues of treating women (wives) in a good manner and this is something ordained by the Sharee’ah. Even the Quran mentioned this, as in the saying of Allaah (which means): {And live with them in kindness. For if you dislike them — perhaps you dislike a thing and Allaah makes therein much good.} [Quran 4:19]
Allaah Knows best.
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