إِنَّ زَيْنَبَ بِنْتَ جَحْشٍ قَالَتْ لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) لَا تَعْدِلُ وَ أَنْتَ نَبِيٌّ فَقَالَ تَرِبَتْ يَدَاكِ إِذَا لَمْ أَعْدِلْ فَمَنْ يَعْدِلُ فَقَالَتْ دَعَوْتَ اللَّهَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ لِيَقْطَعَ يَدَيَّ فَقَالَ لَا وَ لَكِنْ لَتَتْرَبَانِ فَقَالَتْ إِنَّكَ إِنْ طَلَّقْتَنَا وَجَدْنَا فِي قَوْمِنَا أَكْفَاءَنَا فَاحْتُبِسَ الْوَحْيُ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ( صلى الله عليه وآله ) تِسْعاً وَ عِشْرِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ قَالَ أَبُو جَعْفَرٍ ( عليه السلام ) فَأَنِفَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَ جَلَّ لِرَسُولِهِ فَأَنْزَلَ يا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ قُلْ لِأَزْواجِكَ إِنْ كُنْتُنَّ تُرِدْنَ الْحَياةَ الدُّنْيا وَ زِينَتَها الْآيَتَيْنِ فَاخْتَرْنَ اللَّهَ وَ رَسُولَهُ فَلَمْ يَكُ شَيْئاً وَ لَوِ اخْتَرْنَ أَنْفُسَهُنَّ لَبِنَّ .
Translation
From him, from Al Hassan Bin Sama’at, from Wuheyb Bin Hafs, from Abu Baseer, (It has been narrated) from Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> having said: ‘Zaynab Bin Jahash said to Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup>, ‘You<sup>saww</sup> are not being just and you<sup>asws</sup> are a Prophet<sup>saww</sup>’. So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘Dust be on your hands! If I<sup>saww</sup> am not just so who is just?’ So she said, ‘You<sup>saww</sup> have supplicated, O Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> for my hands to be cut-off?’ So he<sup>saww</sup> said: ‘No, but for them to be dusty’. So she said, ‘If you<sup>saww</sup> were to divorce us, we would find our matches among our people’. So the Revelation was withheld from Rasool-Allah<sup>saww</sup> for twenty-nine nights (to Decide their matter). Then, Abu Ja’far<sup>asws</sup> said: ‘So Allah<sup>azwj</sup> Mighty and Majestic Condemned (them on behalf of) His<sup>azwj</sup> Rasool<sup>saww</sup>, so He<sup>azwj</sup> Revealed <span class="ibTxt"><a href="/#/books/quran:33#h28"><a href="/books/quran:33#h28">[33:28]</a></a> O Prophet! Say to your wives: If you desire the life of the world and its adornment</span> – the two Verses. So they chose Allah<sup>azwj</sup> and His<sup>azwj</sup> Rasool<sup>saww</sup>, so nothing occurred, and had they chosen themselves, they would have been irrevocably divorced’.
Compiled by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni
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