Habibah, daughter of Sahl, was married to Thabit bin Qays bin Shammas al-Ansari. She came to dislike him, for he was a man of unattractive appearance. So she went to the Prophet ﷺ and said, "Messenger of Allah, when I see him, were it not for the fear of Allah , I would spit in his face."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ asked her, "Will you return to him the garden he gave you as your bridal gift?"She replied, "Yes."He sent for Thabit, and she returned the garden to him, and he separated the two of them.The narrator said, this was the first khul divorce that took place in Islam.
قال حدثنا عبد القدوس بن بكر بن خنيس قال أخبرنا حجاج عن عمرو بن شعيب عن أبيه عن عبد الله بن عمرو والحجاج عن محمد بن سليمان بن أبي حثمة
كانت حبيبة ابنة سهل تحت ثابت بن قيس بن شماس الأنصاري فكرهته وكان رجلا دميما فجاءت إلى النبي ﷺ فقالت يا رسول الله إني لأراه فلولا مخافة الله عز وجل لبزقت في وجهه فقال رسول الله ﷺ أتردين عليه حديقته التي أصدقك قالت نعم فأرسل إليه فردت عليه حديقته وفرق بينهما قال فكان ذلك أول خلع كان في الإسلام
Its chain is hasan, because of Abdul-Qudus bin Bakr bin Khunays, whom Abu Hatim and others approved, while the rest remained silent about him, and also because of Hajjaj bin Artah. Bukhari narrated the hadith with similar wording in the Book of Divorce, chapter on Khula, 9/295, no. 5273 (Fath), as did Abu Dawud, 2/269, no. 2227, and Tirmidhi, 3/482, no. 1184, who graded it sahih, and Nasai, 6/169, and Ibn Majah, 1/663, no. 2056, and Darimi, 2/116, no. 2271, and Malik, 2/564, all of them in the Book of Divorce, chapter on Khula.