Anas reported that when Zaynab's waiting period had ended, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said to Zayd, "Go and mention me to her."Zayd said, "So I set out and came to her while she was leavening her dough. When I saw her, she loomed so great in my heart that I could not even look at her, because the Messenger of Allah ﷺ had mentioned her. So I turned my back to her and stepped away on my heels, and I said, 'Zaynab, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ has sent word mentioning you.'"Zaynab replied, "I will do nothing until I consult my Lord."Then she rose to her place of prayer, and the Quran was revealed, and the Messenger of Allah ﷺ came and entered upon her without asking permission.Anas continued, "I remember that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ fed us bread and meat when the day had stretched on. The people left, but some men stayed behind in the house talking after the meal. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ went out and I followed him, and he began going round the chambers of his wives, greeting them, and they would ask, 'Messenger of Allah, how did you find your wife?'I do not know whether I was the one who told him that the men had left or whether he told me. In any case, he set off and entered the house, and I went to enter with him, but he dropped the curtain between me and himself, and the verse of the veil was revealed. The people were given the admonition they were given."Ibn Rafi added in his version, "Do not enter the houses of the Prophet unless permission is given you for a meal, without awaiting its preparation" up to His words, "and Allah is not shy of the truth" [Ahzab 33:53].
لما انقضت عدة زينب، قال رسول الله ﷺ لزيد: فاذكرها علي، قال: فانطلق زيد حتى أتاها، وهي تخمر عجينها، قال: فلما رأيتها عظمت في صدري، حتى ما أستطيع أن أنظر إليها أن رسول الله ﷺ ذكرها، فوليتها ظهري، ونكصت على عقبي، فقلت يا زينب: أرسل رسول الله ﷺ يذكرك، قالت: ما أنا بصانعة شيئا حتى أوامر ربي، فقامت إلى مسجدها، ونزل القرآن، وجاء رسول الله ﷺ، فدخل عليها بغير إذن، قال: فقال: ولقد رأيتنا أن رسول الله ﷺ أطعمنا الخبز واللحم حين امتد النهار، فخرج الناس، وبقي رجال يتحدثون في البيت بعد الطعام، فخرج رسول الله ﷺ واتبعته، فجعل يتتبع حجر نسائه يسلم عليهن، ويقلن: يا رسول الله، كيف وجدت أهلك؟ قال: فما أدري أنا أخبرته أن القوم قد خرجوا أو أخبرني، قال: فانطلق حتى دخل البيت، فذهبت أدخل معه، فألقى الستر بيني وبينه، ونزل الحجاب، قال: ووعظ القوم بما وعظوا به، زاد ابن رافع في حديثه: {لا تدخلوا بيوت النبي إلا أن يؤذن لكم إلى طعام غير نظرين إنه} إلى قوله: {والله لا يستحي من الحق} [سورة الأحزاب: ٥٣].