Marry women who will love their hus­bands and be very prolific, for I want you to be more numerous than any other people.

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Quoted from T.P. Hughes: Dictionary of Islam, p.314, who refers to book 13 of Mishkatu'l Masa­bih ("nic­hes for lamps [of the tradition]", a compilation of Sunni tradit­ions by the 12th-century Imam Husain al-Baghaw­i, expanded in the 14th century by Shaykh Waliuddin). Also quoted Elst, Koenraad. (1997) The Demographic Siege

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