Job (a): Difference between revisions

It is said that Job (a) made an oath to strike his wife a hundred lashes after his recovery. However, when he was recovered, he decided to forgive her, but he had made an oath and could not break it. Thus, it was revealed to him to strike her instead one time with a bundle of one-hundred sticks in order not to break his oath.  

There is disagreement among the commentators as to the story behind Job's oath. Ibn Abbas is reported to have said that Satan appeared to Job's wife and told her, “I will heal your husband if you say after his recovery that only I healed him.” Having become tired of her husband’s illness, Job's wife accepted Satan’s offer, and this was why Job (a) made an oat to flog her. Some others have mentioned that Job (a) sent his wife to do something but she delayed, and Job (a) made such an oath to punish her. It is also said that she used to hurt Job (a) by her words during his illness, and that is why Job (a) made that oath. Yet, according to a report, Job (a) made that oath after he was healed, because during his illness his wife went to the village to bring some bread, and she sold her tresses in exchange for bread. When she came back to Job (a), he was healed and got upset with his wife for selling her tresses and then made that oath, but when he learned about the reason why she had sold her tresses, he regretted making the oath.  

The authenticity of some of these reports are doubted because they are in contradiction with the doctrine of the infallibility of prophets and also because of the unreliability of their chains of transmitters.