What are the sayings of the scholars regarding the meaning of the Hadith of Rifaa? And did his wife's skin really turn green from the severity of the beating? And what is the meaning of Aisha's statement: "I have not seen anything like what the believing women endure"? And what happened to the woman and Rifaa after their matter reached the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him?

The hadith refers to the protection of women's rights and the defense of the vulnerable. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, enjoined this in the hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah, may Allah be pleased with him: "O Allah, I declare inviolable the rights of the two weak ones: the orphan and the woman." The beating that Tamimah bint Wahb endured is an example of bad customs, and Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Zubayr's excuse did not justify his harmful beating of his wife. Rather, his options were to give her the choice between khul' (divorce initiated by the wife) or continuing the marriage. The Mother of the Believers, Aisha, may Allah be pleased with her, expressed her displeasure with Abd al-Rahman ibn al-Zubayr's conduct and wondered at the severity of the beating Tamimah suffered. The narration does not complete the fate of this complaint; instead, the narrators' attention turned to mentioning the condition of actual intercourse in the second marriage for the woman to become lawful for her first husband. This emphasizes that narrators may overlook important parts of a story and focus on transmitting the exact words uttered by the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, regarding the core issue. Many hadiths prohibit harming a Muslim's brother Muslim, and especially harming wives.