CHARACTERISTICS OF PIOUS HUSBAND

On the Day of Judgment (Judgment day is the end of the earth and the universe):
Allah will ask men if they fulfilled their obligations towards their families.
They who fear Allah will do their best to direct the way his wife and
children live by educating himself and his family to living according to the Sunnah of the
Prophet (Sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) and the Holy Qur'an, the final word of Allah.

The Prophet (Sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said, "The best of you is the best one to his
family." [Al-Tabarani]

To share food with her, to provide her with (decent) clothes as he provides himself, to
refrain from smacking her, and not ignoring her but in the house. [Ahmad]

One should not hate his believer wife. If he dislikes some of her attitudes, he would
(surely) like others (attitudes). [Muslim]

Woman was created from a bent rib and will not be made straight for you on one way
(that you like). If you want to enjoy her, you enjoy her while she is still bent. If you want
to straighten her up, you will break her. Breaking her is divorcing her. [Al-Bukhari &
Muslim]

Do (volunteer) fasting (some days) and do not fast (in other days), pray at night (some
nights) and sleep (in other nights). Your body has a right on you (to rest), your eye has a
right on you (to sleep), and your wife has a right on you. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Fear Allah in (treating) women. [Muslim]

Be advised to treat women righteously. [Al-Bukhari & Muslim]

Allah Says in His Holy Quran Chapter 4 Verse 19:

O ye who believe! It is not lawful for you forcibly to inherit the women
( of your deceased kinsmen ) , nor ( that ) ye should put constraint upon
them that ye may take away a part of that which ye have given them ,
unless they be guilty of flagrant lewdness . But consort with them in
kindness , for if ye hate them it may happen that ye hate a thing
wherein Allah hath placed much good .

The Prophet (Sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said, "A Dinar (a currency) that you spend on
your family, a Dinar that you spend on a poor person and a Dinar that you spend in the
sake of Allah. The one that carries the most reward is the one that you spend on your
family." [Muslim]

The Prophet(Sal Allahu alaihi wasallam) said to Saaid ibn Abi Waqqas, "Know that no
charity that you give whether small or large, for the sake of Allah, but you will be
rewarded for it, even the bite (of food) that you put in your wife's mouth." [Bukhari]