Sunan an-Nasa'i
Sunan an-Nasa'i 3421
أَخْبَرَنَا قُتَيْبَةُ، عَنْ حَجَّاجٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنْ عَطَاءٍ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ عُبَيْدَ بْنَ عُمَيْرٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ عَائِشَةَ، زَوْجَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم كَانَ يَمْكُثُ عِنْدَ زَيْنَبَ وَيَشْرَبُ عِنْدَهَا عَسَلاً فَتَوَاصَيْتُ وَحَفْصَةَ أَيَّتُنَا مَا دَخَلَ عَلَيْهَا النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم فَلْتَقُلْ إِنِّي أَجِدُ مِنْكَ رِيحَ مَغَافِيرَ فَدَخَلَ عَلَى إِحْدَاهُمَا فَقَالَتْ ذَلِكَ لَهُ فَقَالَ " بَلْ شَرِبْتُ عَسَلاً عِنْدَ زَيْنَبَ - وَقَالَ - لَنْ أَعُودَ لَهُ " . فَنَزَلَ { يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ لِمَ تُحَرِّمُ مَا أَحَلَّ اللَّهُ لَكَ } { إِنْ تَتُوبَا إِلَى اللَّهِ } لِعَائِشَةَ وَحَفْصَةَ { وَإِذْ أَسَرَّ النَّبِيُّ إِلَى بَعْضِ أَزْوَاجِهِ حَدِيثًا } لِقَوْلِهِ " بَلْ شَرِبْتُ عَسَلاَ " . كُلُّهُ فِي حَدِيثِ عَطَاءٍ .
Qutaybah narrated to us, from Hajjaj, from Ibn Jurayj, from Ata, who heard Ubayd bin Umayr say: I heard Aishah, the wife of the Prophet, say that the Prophet used to stay with Zaynab and drink honey at her home. Hafsah and I agreed that whichever of us the Prophet came to, she would say, ‘I smell maghafir on you.’ He went to one of them, and she said this to him. He replied, ‘No, rather, I drank honey at Zaynab's—and I will not return to it.’ Then these verses were revealed: ‘O Prophet, why do you prohibit what Allah has made lawful for you?’; ‘If the two of you turn to Allah in repentance’—concerning Aishah and Hafsah; and ‘When the Prophet confided a matter to one of his wives’—because he said, ‘Rather, I drank honey.’ All of this is in the report of Ata.
Translation notes
Maghafir are sweet gum exuded by the ʿurfut tree, with an unpleasant odor (Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon, entry مغفور: https://www.laneslexicon.com/word/%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1).