Is the following hadith authentic: "Does it not please one of you that if she is pregnant by her husband and he is pleased with her, she has the reward of one who fasts and prays, striving in the path of Allah? And if she experiences labor pains, neither the inhabitants of the heavens nor the inhabitants of the earth know what has been hidden for her of joy. And if she gives birth, no drop of her milk leaves her, nor is a single suck taken, except that for every drop and every suck, she has a good deed. And if she stays awake for one night, she has the reward of seventy slaves freed in the path of Allah"? And is there a reliable reference regarding the virtue of a wife's obedience to her husband?
This hadith narrated by Salamah — the wet nurse of Ibrahim, the son of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) — is fabricated and a lie. Ibn Hibban, Ibn al-Jawzi, and others have ruled it to be fabricated. Furthermore, Sheikh Al-Albani confirmed that it is a fabricated hadith, clearly so, and its defect lies with Amr ibn Sa'id al-Khawlani, who transmitted fabricated narrations. Whoever wishes to know the authentic hadiths regarding the virtue of a wife's obedience to her husband should refer to Sheikh Al-Albani's book "Sahih al-Targhib wa al-Tarhib."
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