Chapter on the Blessing and Omen of a Woman
Man Lā Yaḥḍuruh al-Faqīh|Volume 3|Book 3|Chapter 10
رُوِيَ عَنْ عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ مُسْلِمٍ قَالَ قَالَ أَبُو عَبْدِ اَللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ اَلسَّلاَمُ: "مِنْ بَرَكَةِ اَلْمَرْأَةِ خِفَّةُ مَئُونَتِهَا وَ تَيْسِيرُ وِلاَدَتِهَا وَ مِنْ شُؤْمِهَا شِدَّةُ مَئُونَتِهَا وَ تَعْسِيرُ وِلاَدَتِهَا".
It is narrated from Abdullah ibn Bukayr, from Muhammad ibn Muslim, that Abu Abdillah عليه السلام said: "Among the blessings of a woman are the lightness of her expenses and the ease of her childbirth. And among her misfortunes are the heaviness of her expenses and the difficulty of her childbirth."
- Ṣaḥīḥ al-Faqīh, p. 270