Khawla bint Thalaba reported,

By Allah, regarding me and Aws bin Samit, Allah revealed the opening of Surah al-Mujadilah.She said, "I was married to him, and he was a very old man whose temperament had grown bad and who had become irritable. One day he came in to me, and I answered him back about something, which made him angry, so he said, 'You are to me as the back of my mother.' Then he went out and sat in the assembly of his people for a while. After that he came back in to me, and behold, he wanted to be intimate with me."She said, "I told him, 'Never! By the One in whose hand is the soul of Khuwaylah, you shall not get to me after you have said what you said, until Allah and His Messenger judge between us with His ruling.' He sprang at me, but I refused him, and I overcame him in the way a woman can overcome a feeble old man, and I threw him off me."Then I went out to one of my neighbors and borrowed her clothes from her, then I went out until I came to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ and sat before him. I told him what I had suffered from my husband, and I began to complain to him ﷺ about the bad temper I had to endure."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ kept saying, 'Khuwaylah, your cousin is an old man, so fear Allah concerning him.' By Allah, I had not yet left when Quran was revealed concerning me. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ was overcome by what used to come over him during revelation, and then it was lifted from him. He said to me, 'Khuwaylah, Allah has revealed concerning you and your husband.'"Then he recited to me, 'Allah has indeed heard the speech of the woman who pleads with you concerning her husband and complains to Allah, and Allah hears your dialogue. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing,' up to His words, 'and for the disbelievers there is a painful punishment' [Mujadilah 58:1–4]."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ then said to me, 'Order him to free a slave.'"She said, "I said, 'By Allah, Messenger of Allah, he has nothing with which to free a slave.'"He said, "Then let him fast two consecutive months."She said, "I said, 'By Allah, Messenger of Allah, he is a very old man with no capacity for fasting.'"He said, "Then let him feed sixty poor people with a wasq of dates."She said, "I said, 'By Allah, Messenger of Allah, he does not have that either.'"She said, "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, 'Then we will help him with a basket of dates.'"She said, "I said, 'And I, Messenger of Allah, will help him with another basket.'"He said, "You have done right and done well. Go and give it as charity on his behalf, then take good care of your cousin."She said, "And so I did."Saad said, "Al-araq is the large basket."

حدثنا سعد بن إبراهيم ويعقوب قالا حدثنا أبي قال حدثنا محمد بن إسحاق قال حدثني معمر بن عبد الله بن حنظلة عن يوسف بن عبد الله بن سلام

عن خولة بنت ثعلبة قالت

والله في وفي أوس بن صامت أنزل الله عز وجل صدر سورة المجادلة قالت كنت عنده وكان شيخا كبيرا قد ساء خلقه وضجر قالت فدخل علي يوما فراجعته بشيء فغضب فقال أنت علي كظهر أمي قالت ثم خرج فجلس في نادي قومه ساعة ثم دخل علي فإذا هو يريدني على نفسي قالت فقلت كلا والذي نفس خويلة بيده لا تخلص إلي وقد قلت ما قلت حتى يحكم الله ورسوله فينا بحكمه قالت فواثبني وامتنعت منه فغلبته بما تغلب به المرأة الشيخ الضعيف فألقيته عني قالت ثم خرجت إلى بعض جاراتي فاستعرت منها ثيابها ثم خرجت حتى جئت رسول الله ﷺ فجلست بين يديه فذكرت له ما لقيت منه فجعلت أشكو إليه ﷺ ما ألقى من سوء خلقه قالت فجعل رسول الله ﷺ يقول يا خويلة ابن عمك شيخ كبير فاتقي الله فيه قالت فوالله ما برحت حتى نزل في القرآن فتغشى رسول الله ﷺ ما كان يتغشاه ثم سري عنه فقال لي يا خويلة قد أنزل الله فيك وفي صاحبك ثم قرأ علي {قد سمع الله قول التي تجادلك في زوجها وتشتكي إلى الله والله يسمع تحاوركما إن الله سميع بصير} إلى قوله {وللكافرين عذاب أليم} فقال لي رسول الله ﷺ مريه فليعتق رقبة قالت فقلت والله يا رسول الله ما عنده ما يعتق قال فليصم شهرين متتابعين قالت فقلت والله يا رسول الله إنه شيخ كبير ما به من صيام قال فليطعم ستين مسكينا وسقا من تمر قالت قلت والله يا رسول الله ما ذاك عنده قالت فقال رسول الله ﷺ فإنا سنعينه بعرق من تمر قالت فقلت وأنا يا رسول الله سأعينه بعرق آخر قال قد أصبت وأحسنت فاذهبي فتصدقي عنه ثم استوصي بابن عمك خيرا قالت ففعلت قال سعد العرق الصن