A wife worked with her husband: is he obliged to pay her for it after separation?

Question

In the weavers’ biradari (a kinship or caste community), whose ancestral occupation is cloth-weaving, the women as a rule do more of the work of the ancestral trade than their husbands, and they look after all the household affairs with full responsibility. Moreover, the general state of society is this: if a woman, while remaining in the household affairs, did the work of the husband’s ancestral trade, he abuses her, reproaches and taunts her, and beats her; and if some displeasure is shown on the woman’s part,…

Answer

All these evils are due to the scarcity or absence of knowledge and God-fearingness (taqwa). All of this is kindness and sympathy; no compensation for it can now be demanded, nor is paying it wajib.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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