Sunan an-Nasa'i 3795

Al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Zaʿfarani reported to us; he said: Hajjaj narrated to us, from Ibn Jurayj, who said: ʿAtaʾ related that he heard ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr say: I heard ʿAishah relate that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, used to stay with Zaynab bint Jahsh and drink honey at her home. Hafsah and I agreed that whichever of us the Prophet visited first would say to him, ‘I notice the smell of maghafir on you. Have you eaten maghafir?’ He visited one of them, and she said this to him. He replied, ‘No, rather, I drank honey at Zaynab bint Jahsh’s home, but I will not do so again.’ Then the words were revealed: ‘O Prophet, why do you prohibit what Allah has made lawful for you?’ through the words ‘if you two turn to Allah in repentance’—that is, ʿAishah and Hafsah. And the words ‘And when the Prophet confided something to one of his wives’ refer to his saying, ‘No, rather, I drank honey.’