The people of the pre-Islamic era used to regard as forbidden everything that is forbidden, except for a father's wife and marrying two sisters at once. So Allah revealed, "And do not marry the women whom your fathers married, except what has already passed. That was indeed an indecency, a hateful thing, and an evil way." [Nisa 4:22]
كان أهل الجاهلية يحرمون ما يحرم إلا امرأة الأب والجمع بين الأختين، فأنزل الله تعالى: {ولا تنكحوا ما نكح ءاباؤكم من النساء إلا ما قد سلف إنه كان فاحشة ومقتا وساء سبيلا}.
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Ibn Jareer narrated it in his Tafsir (6/549) from Muhammad bin Abdullah Mukharrami, who said, Qarad narrated to us, who said, Ibn Uyayna narrated to us, from Amr, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbas, and he related it.Its chain of transmission is sahih, and Qarad is the nickname of Abdul-Rahman bin Ghazwan Dabbi, who is among the narrators relied upon by Bukhari.