How accurate is the narration mentioned by Ibn Qudamah in his book Minhaj al-Qasidin, in the chapter on marriage, which includes the saying of Omar ibn al-Khattab to his wife: "You are but a woman who is toyed with and then abandoned"?
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The narration mentioned in the book "Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin" by Ibn Qudamah, quoted from "Minhaj al-Qasidin" by Ibn al-Jawzi and "Ihya Ulum al-Din" by Al-Ghazali, was not commented upon by Al-Hafiz Al-Iraqi nor by Sheikh Shu'aib Al-Arna'ut, and no chain of narration was found for it to rule upon it.
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