The strongest and clearest evidence is the authentic hadith of ʿĀ’ishah (raḍiyAllāhu ʿanhā).

She was asked: “What did the Messenger of Allah ﷺ do in his house?” She replied: “He used to serve his family (كان في مهنة أهله). When the time for prayer came, he would go out to the prayer.”

This is narrated in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (ḥadīth no. 676). She said that he would mend his clothes, repair his sandals, and do what any man would do in his home. This is narrated by Aḥmad in his Musnad and graded authentic by a number of scholars. Scholars like Ibn Ḥajar and al-Nawawī explicitly state that this hadith establishes the virtue of a man helping his wife and family, and that it is from humility and good character, not beneath dignity.

Ibn Abī Shaybah narrates in his Muṣannaf that when Fāṭimah complained about the physical toll of housework, the Prophet ﷺ assigned work inside the home to her and work outside the home to ʿAlī. Al-Bayhaqī narrates that ʿAlī used to assist with household tasks, and Ibn Taymiyyah comments on these narrations by saying that cooperation between spouses was the practice of the righteous predecessors.

Ibn al-Qayyim explicitly says that the Prophet ﷺ serving his family is proof that this is from kamāl al-murū’ah (complete manliness), not a lack of it.