You can’t hit your wife with anything more than a tooth stick!
عَنْ عَطَاءٍ عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ وَاضْرِبُوهُنَّ قَالَ ضَرْبًا غَيْرَ مُبَرِّحٍ قُلْتُ لِابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ مَا الضَّرْبُ غَيْرُ الْمُبَرِّحِ قَالَ بِالسِّوَاكِ وَنَحْوِهِ
A man asked Ibn ‘Abbas about the verse, “And strike them,” ● 4:34
Ibn ‘Abbas said, “It is a striking without severity.”
I said to Ibn ‘Abbas, “What is a striking without severity?”
Ibn ‘Abbas said, “It is with a tooth stick or something similar.”
●[تفسير الطبري : جامع البيان عن تأويل آي القرآن ٩٣٨٧]