3-206 (The compiler of the book narrated) that his father - may God be pleased with him - narrated that Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Salt quoted on the authority of Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Khalid, on the authorityof Mansoor ibn al-Ab’bas, on the authority of Sa’id ibn Jinah, on the authority of Motrif - a servant of Ma’an, that Aba Abdullah as-Sadiq (MGB) said,

“There are three things which comfort a believer: a big house in which he guards his privacy and his bad states of health from the people; a good wife who assists him in the affairs of this life and the Hereafter; and a daughter or a sister who leaves his house either by death or because of marriage.”