Sawda feared that the Prophet ﷺ would divorce her, so she said, "Do not divorce me. Keep me, and give my day to Ayesha." He did so, and the verse was revealed, "There is no blame upon them if they reconcile between themselves with a settlement, and settlement is best" [Nisa 4:128].
خشيت سودة أن يطلقها النبي ﷺ فقالت: لا تطلقني، وأمسكني، واجعل يومي لعائشة. ففعل. فنزلت: {فلا جناح عليهما أن يصلحا بينهما صلحا والصلح خير} [النساء: ١٢٨].
Reported by Tirmidhi (3040), Muhammad bin Muthanna told us, Abu Dawud Tayalisi told us, Sulayman bin Muaz told us, from Simak, from Ikrima, from Ibn Abbas, and he mentioned it. The hadith is also found in the Musnad of Abu Dawud (2805), and from that route Bayhaqi also reported it (7/297). Tirmidhi said, "Hasan sahih ghareeb."I say, in it is Sulayman bin Muaz, who is Sulayman bin Qarm bin Muaz Dabbi. Abu Dawud attributed him to his grandfather. There is disagreement about him.Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Hanbal said, my father used to follow up the hadith of Qutba bin Abdul-Aziz, Sulayman bin Qarm, and Yazid bin Abdul-Aziz bin Siyah, and he said, these people are trustworthy, and their hadith is more complete than that of Sufyan and Shuba, and they are men of written books, even though Sufyan and Shuba have stronger memory than them.Muhammad bin Awf said, on the authority of Ahmad, I see no harm in him, but he used to go to excess in Shiism.Ibn Adi said, he has fine, singular hadiths, and he is far better than Sulayman bin Arqam. However, Ibn Main, Abu Zura, and Nasai judged him daif.The conclusion is that his hadith is to be judged hasan when it does not contradict others. Also in it is his teacher Simak, and there is confusion in his narration from Ikrima, except that he did not show confusion in this particular hadith, due to its being well known and having many supporting narrations. That is why Tirmidhi judged it hasan and also graded it sahih.