Sunan an-Nasa'i 3499

Zakariyya ibn Yahya informed us; he said: Ishaq ibn Ibrahim narrated to us; he said: Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Waqid informed us; he said: My father narrated to me; he said: Yazid al-Nahwi informed us, from Ikrimah, from Ibn Abbas, concerning His words: ‘Whatever verse We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than it or similar to it.’ He also said: ‘When We replace one verse with another—and Allah knows best what He sends down’—[the rest of the verse]; and He said: ‘Allah effaces what He wills and confirms, and with Him is the Mother of the Book.’ The first thing abrogated from the Qur’an was the qiblah. He also said: ‘Divorced women shall wait by themselves for three quruʾ,’ and: ‘Those of your women who have despaired of menstruation—if you are in doubt—their waiting period is three months.’ Some of that was then abrogated by the words of the Exalted: ‘If you divorce them before touching them, you have no waiting period to count for them.’