I heard the Prophet ﷺ speaking about the pause in revelation, and he said in his account, "As I was walking along, I heard a voice from the sky. I raised my head, and there was the angel who had come to me at Hira, seated on a throne between the sky and the earth. I was seized with terror at the sight of him, so I returned home and said, 'Wrap me up! Wrap me up!' So they covered me with a cloak, and Allah revealed, "You who are wrapped in a cloak" down to His words, "and shun all filth" [Muddaththir 74:1–5], meaning the idols. This was before prayer was made obligatory. Then the revelation grew intense and came in close succession."
سمعت النبي ﷺ وهو يحدث عن فترة الوحي فقال في حديثه: فبينا أنا أمشي إذ سمعت صوتا من السماء، فرفعت رأسي فإذا الملك الذي جاءني بحراء جالس على كرسي بين السماء والأرض فجئثت منه رعبا فرجعت فقلت: زملوني زملوني فدثروني فأنزل الله عز وجل: {يأيها المدثر} إلى قوله تعالى: {والرجز فاهجر} قبل أن تفرض الصلاة- وهي الأوثان- ثم حمي الوحي وتتابع.
Bukhari related it in the Tafsir (4925) and Muslim in the Faith (161), both from the hadith of Zuhri, who said, "Abu Salama bin Abdul-Rahman informed me, from Jabir bin Abdullah," who said, then he related it as mentioned.The scholars have differed concerning the length of the period during which revelation was suspended. This has already been discussed in the Book of Revelation.As for what Bukhari mentioned (6982), "Revelation was suspended for a while, until the Prophet ﷺ, as we have been informed, became so grieved that he would repeatedly set out intending to throw himself down from the tops of towering mountains. Every time he reached the summit of a mountain meaning to cast himself off, Jibreel would appear to him," this is daif, and it belongs to the unconnected reports (balaghat) of Zuhri.The scholars are in agreement that the balaghat of Zuhri are weak, and this has already been noted in the Book of Revelation. So it is not permissible to attribute it to Bukhari without clarification, since it does not meet his conditions, he only mentioned it as a balagh.