Sahih al-Bukhari 5267

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Al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad ibn Ṣabbāḥ narrated to me: Ḥajjāj narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj; he said: ʿAṭāʾ claimed that he heard ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr say: I heard ʿĀʾishah, may Allah be pleased with her, say: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to stay with Zaynab daughter of Jaḥsh and drink honey at her house. Ḥafṣah and I agreed that whichever of us the Prophet entered upon should say, ‘I notice a smell of maghāfīr from you. Have you eaten maghāfīr?’ He entered upon one of them, and she said this to him. He replied, ‘No. Rather, I drank honey at Zaynab daughter of Jaḥsh's house, and I will not return to it.’ Then the verses were revealed: ‘O Prophet, why do you prohibit what Allah has made lawful for you?’ through ‘If you two turn in repentance to Allah’—concerning ʿĀʾishah and Ḥafṣah. And ‘When the Prophet confided a matter to one of his wives’ refers to his words, ‘Rather, I drank honey.’