سَمِعْتُ أَبَا جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) يَقُولُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ أَنِفَ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) مِنْ مَقَالَةٍ قَالَتْهَا بَعْضُ نِسَائِهِ فَأَنْزَلَ اللَّهُ آيَةَ التَّخْيِيرِ فَاعْتَزَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) نِسَاءَهُ تِسْعاً وَ عِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً فِي مَشْرَبَةِ أُمِّ إِبْرَاهِيمَ ثُمَّ دَعَاهُنَّ فَخَيَّرَهُنَّ فَاخْتَرْنَهُ فَلَمْ يَكُ شَيْئاً وَ لَوِ اخْتَرْنَ أَنْفُسَهُنَّ كَانَتْ وَاحِدَةً بَائِنَةً قَالَ وَ سَأَلْتُهُ عَنْ مَقَالَةِ الْمَرْأَةِ مَا هِيَ قَالَ فَقَالَ إِنَّهَا قَالَتْ يَرَى مُحَمَّدٌ أَنَّهُ لَوْ طَلَّقَنَا أَنَّهُ لَا يَأْتِينَا الْأَكْفَاءُ مِنْ قَوْمِنَا يَتَزَّوَجُونَّا .
Translation
Muhammad Bin Yahya, from Ahmad Bin Muhammad, from Ibn Fazzal, from Ibn Bukeyr, from Zurara who said, ‘I heard Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> saying that Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Scorned for Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> due to the speech which one of his<sup>saww</sup> wives said, so He<sup>azwj</sup> Revealed the Verse of the Choice <a href="/#/books/quran:33#h28"><a href="/books/quran:33#h28">[33:28]</a></a>. So Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> detached from his<sup>saww</sup> wives for twenty-nine nights in the watering place of Umm Ibrahim<sup>as</sup> (Mariah the Coptic). Then he<sup>saww</sup> called them over, so he<sup>saww</sup> gave them a choice, so they chose him<sup>saww</sup>. So nothing happened, and had they chosen themselves, even once, they would have been irrevocably divorced’. He (the narrator) said, ‘And I asked him<sup>asws</sup> about the speech of the woman, and what it is?’ So he<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘She said, ‘Muhammad<sup>saww</sup> sees that if he<sup>saww</sup> were to divorce us, the matches from our people would not come to us to marry us’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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