Hanafi Jurists understood husbands physically disciplining their wives as an essential right and they highlighted the importance of sequentially following the three prescriptions of admonishment, abandonment and hitting. Although they emphasized that the beating ought to be non-extreme, there was vagueness in the definition of non-extreme. In general Hananfi Jurists imagined a very limited role for the court in domestic affairs, they discouraged public inquiries into private affairs of the household and marital relation. “Most of their legal efforts in their discussions of husband’s disciplinary privileges were aimed at protecting a husband from the court in the case of a wife’s death at the hands of her husband” (Chaudry, 2013:108). The Hanfi
