Sunan an-Nasa'i 3959

Ibrahim ibn Yunus ibn Muhammad, known by the nickname Harami, informed me; he said: My father narrated to us; he said: Hammad ibn Salamah narrated to us, from Thabit, from Anas, that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, had a slave woman with whom he had sexual relations. ʿAishah and Hafsah kept pressing him until he declared her forbidden to himself. Then Allah, Mighty and Sublime, revealed: ‘O Prophet, why do you forbid for yourself what Allah has made lawful for you?’—to the end of the verse.