Rifa divorced his wife, and she then married Abdul-Rahman bin Zubayr al-Qurazi. Ayesha said, "She came wearing a green veil, and she complained to me, showing me green marks on her skin."When the Messenger of Allah ﷺ arrived, the women were supporting one another. Ayesha said, "I have never seen what believing women endure. Her skin was greener than her garment."When Abdul-Rahman heard that she had gone to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, he came, accompanied by two sons of his from another wife.She said, "By Allah, I have done no wrong against him, except that what he has is no more use to me than this," and she took hold of a fringe from her garment.He said, "By Allah, she is lying, Messenger of Allah. I shake her as vigorously as a piece of leather is shaken, but she is rebellious and wants to return to Rifa."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "If that is the case, you are not lawful for him," or he said, "you are not permitted for him, until he tastes of your sweetness."Then he noticed the two boys with him and asked, "Are these your sons?"He replied, "Yes."The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "This is the man about whom you claim what you claim? By Allah, they resemble him as closely as one crow resembles another."
أن رفاعة طلق امرأته، فتزوجها عبد الرحمنبن الزبير القرظي، قالت عائشة: وعليها خمار أخضر، فشكت إليها، وأرتها خضرة بجلدها، فلما جاء رسول الله ﷺ والنساء ينصر بعضهن بعضا، قالت عائشة: ما رأيت مثل ما يلقى المؤمنات، لجلدها أشد خضرة من ثوبها. قال: وسمع أنها قد أتت رسول الله ﷺ فجاء، ومعه ابنان له من غيرها. قالت: والله مالي إليه من ذنب، إلا أن ما معه ليس بأغنى عني من هذه وأخذت هدبة من ثوبها. فقال: كذبت والله يا رسول الله، إني لأنفضها نفض الأديم، ولكنها ناشر، تريد رفاعة، فقال رسول الله ﷺ: فإن كان ذلك لم تحلي له، أو: لم تصلحي له، حتى يذوق من عسيلتك. قال: وأبصر معه ابنين، فقال: بنوك هؤلاء؟ قال: نعم، قال: هذا الذي تزعمين ما تزعمين، فوالله لهم أشبه به من الغراب بالغراب.
Bukhari narrated it in "Clothing" (5825) from Muhammad bin Bashshar, who said, "Abdul-Wahhab narrated to us, Ayub informed us, from Ikrima," with the same wording.Note, Bukhari alone narrated it in this manner and with this wording.Another note, the copy before us, which is the one on which Ibn Hajar's commentary is based, reads, "Ayesha said, 'She was wearing a green veil...'" This makes it explicit that it is a musnad narration from the hadith of Ayesha .However, in Jam Bayn Sahihayn by Humaydi (4/32) it occurs as, "Then Ayesha came, wearing a green veil," and he related the hadith, then quoted Abu Bakr Barqani as saying, "This is how Bukhari narrated it as mursal from Bundar, and likewise Hammad bin Zayd and Wahib narrated it from Ayub as mursal. But Suwayd bin Saeed narrated it as musnad, from Abdul-Wahhab Thaqafi, saying in it, 'From Ibn Abbas, that Rifa divorced his wife, and Abdul-Rahman bin Zubayr married her...' and he mentioned the hadith." End of quote.However, Ibn Hajar found fault with Suwayd's narration. He said in Fath al-Bari (10/282), after the phrase "Ayesha said, 'She was wearing a veil...'", "In the statement 'Ayesha said' there is that which shows the error in Suwayd's narration, and that the hadith is from the narration of Ikrima from Ayesha." End of quote.