Imām ash-Shāfiʿī said, “I prefer for a man to limit himself to one wife, even though it is permissible to have more, due to the saying of the Almighty: ‘But if you are afraid you will fail to maintain justice, then content yourselves with one,’” (4:3). [Al-Bayān fī Madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfiʿī, 11/189]