Ibn Abbas reported, I had long been eager to ask Umar about the two wives of the Prophet ﷺ concerning whom Allah said, "If you both turn to Allah in repentance, your hearts have indeed inclined" [Tahrim 66:4]. So I performed Hajj with him, and he turned aside from the road, and I turned aside with him carrying a water vessel. He relieved himself, then came back, and I poured water from the vessel over his hands so he could perform ablution.I said, "Commander of the Believers, who were the two wives of the Prophet ﷺ concerning whom Allah said, 'If you both turn to Allah in repentance, your hearts have indeed inclined' [Tahrim 66:4]?"He said, "How astonishing of you, Ibn Abbas! They were Ayesha and Hafsa."Then Umar began telling the story from the beginning. He said, "I had a neighbor from the Ansar in the quarter of Banu Umaya bin Zayd, in the upper part of Madinah. We used to take turns visiting the Prophet ﷺ. He would go down one day and I would go down another. When I went, I would bring back to him the news of that day, the revelations and other matters, and when he went, he would do the same.We Quraysh used to dominate our women, but when we came to the Ansar, we found a people whose women dominated them. Our women began adopting the manners of the Ansari women. One day I shouted at my wife, and she answered me back. I disapproved of her answering me back, but she said, 'Why do you disapprove of me answering you back? By Allah, the wives of the Prophet ﷺ answer him back, and one of them might avoid him for a whole day until night.'This alarmed me, and I said, 'Whoever among them does that has surely lost.' Then I gathered my clothes and went to Hafsa.I said, 'Hafsa, does any of you keep the Messenger of Allah ﷺ angry from morning until night?'She said, 'Yes.'I said, 'She has lost and failed. Does she feel safe from Allah's wrath at the anger of His Messenger ﷺ, so that she would be destroyed? Do not demand too much from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, do not answer him back about anything, and do not avoid him. Ask me whatever you need, and do not be deceived if your neighbor is more beautiful than you and more beloved to the Messenger of Allah ﷺ,' meaning Ayesha.We had been talking that the Ghassanids were preparing their horses to attack us. My companion went down on his turn and returned at night. He knocked on my door violently and said, 'Is he asleep?' I was alarmed and went out to him.He said, 'A great matter has happened.'I said, 'What is it? Have the Ghassanids come?'He said, 'No, something even greater and more far-reaching. The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has divorced his wives.'I said, 'Hafsa has lost and failed. I had thought this was about to happen.' I gathered my clothes and prayed the Fajr prayer with the Prophet ﷺ. He entered an upper chamber and secluded himself there.I went in to Hafsa and found her weeping. I said, 'What makes you cry? Did I not warn you? Has the Messenger of Allah ﷺ divorced you?'She said, 'I do not know. He is over there in the upper chamber.'I went out and came to the pulpit, where I found a group of people, some of them weeping. I sat with them for a while, but what I felt overcame me, so I came to the chamber where he was. I said to a black servant boy of his, 'Ask permission for Umar.' He went in, spoke with the Prophet ﷺ, then came out and said, 'I mentioned you to him, but he was silent.' So I left and sat with the group at the pulpit.Then what I felt overcame me again, so I came back and said the same. The same thing happened. I sat with the group at the pulpit. Then what I felt overcame me again, so I came to the boy and said, 'Ask permission for Umar.' The same thing happened.But as I was turning away to leave, the boy called me, saying, 'The Messenger of Allah ﷺ has given you permission.'I went in to him and found him lying on a mat of palm fiber with nothing between him and it. The mat had left marks on his side. He was leaning on a leather pillow stuffed with palm fiber. I greeted him, and while still standing, I said, 'Have you divorced your wives?'He raised his eyes to me and said, 'No.'Then I said, while still standing, hoping to put him at ease, 'Messenger of Allah, if you had seen me! We Quraysh used to dominate our women, but when we came to a people whose women dominated them...' and I told him the story. The Prophet ﷺ smiled.Then I said, 'If you had seen me when I went in to Hafsa and said, Do not be deceived if your neighbor is more beautiful than you and more beloved to the Prophet ﷺ,' meaning Ayesha. He smiled again. So I sat down when I saw him smile.Then I lifted my eyes around his room, and by Allah, I saw nothing in it worth noticing except three pieces of cured hide. I said, 'Pray to Allah to grant your community abundance, for Persia and Rome have been given abundance and worldly wealth, yet they do not worship Allah.'He had been reclining, but he sat up and said, 'Are you in doubt, son of Khattab? Those are a people whose good things have been hastened to them in this worldly life.'I said, 'Messenger of Allah, ask forgiveness for me.'"The Prophet ﷺ had withdrawn from his wives because of that conversation when Hafsa disclosed it to Ayesha, and he had said, "I will not enter upon them for a month," due to the intensity of his displeasure with them when Allah reproached him.When twenty-nine days had passed, he went in to Ayesha, beginning with her. Ayesha said to him, "You swore not to enter upon us for a month, and we are now at the twenty-ninth night. I have been counting them."The Prophet ﷺ said, "The month is twenty-nine days," and that month was indeed twenty-nine days.Ayesha said, "Then the verse of choice was revealed, and he began with me, the first of the women. He said, 'I am going to mention something to you, but you need not hasten until you consult your parents.'"She said, "I already know that my parents would not order me to leave you."Then he said, "Allah has said, 'Prophet, say to your wives...' until His words 'a great reward' [Ahzab 33:28–29]."I said, "About this should I consult my parents? I want Allah, His Messenger, and the Hereafter."Then he gave his wives the choice, and they said the same as Ayesha had said.
حدثنا يحيى بن بكير حدثنا الليث عن عقيل عن ابن شهاب قال أخبرني عبيد الله بن عبد الله بن أبي ثور
لم أزل حريصا على أن أسأل عمر رضي الله عنه عن المرأتين من أزواج النبي ﷺ اللتين قال الله لهما {إن تتوبا إلى الله فقد صغت قلوبكما} فحججت معه فعدل وعدلت معه بالإداوة فتبرز حتى جاء فسكبت على يديه من الإداوة فتوضأ فقلت يا أمير المؤمنين من المرأتان من أزواج النبي ﷺ اللتان قال الله عز وجل لهما {إن تتوبا إلى الله فقد صغت قلوبكما} فقال وا عجبي لك يا ابن عباس عائشة وحفصة ثم استقبل عمر الحديث يسوقه فقال إني كنت وجار لي من الأنصار في بني أمية بن زيد وهي من عوالي المدينة وكنا نتناوب النزول على النبي ﷺ فينزل يوما وأنزل يوما فإذا نزلت جئته من خبر ذلك اليوم من الأمر وغيره وإذا نزل فعل مثله وكنا معشر قريش نغلب النساء فلما قدمنا على الأنصار إذا هم قوم تغلبهم نساؤهم فطفق نساؤنا يأخذن من أدب نساء الأنصار فصحت على امرأتي فراجعتني فأنكرت أن تراجعني فقالت ولم تنكر أن أراجعك فوالله إن أزواج النبي ﷺ ليراجعنه وإن إحداهن لتهجره اليوم حتى الليل فأفزعني فقلت خابت من فعل منهن بعظيم ثم جمعت علي ثيابي فدخلت على حفصة فقلت أي حفصة أتغاضب إحداكن رسول الله ﷺ اليوم حتى الليل فقالت نعم فقلت خابت وخسرت أفتأمن أن يغضب الله لغضب رسوله ﷺ فتهلكين لا تستكثري على رسول الله ﷺ ولا تراجعيه في شيء ولا تهجريه واسأليني ما بدا لك ولا يغرنك أن كانت جارتك هي أوضأ منك وأحب إلى رسول الله ﷺ يريد عائشة وكنا تحدثنا أن غسان تنعل النعال لغزونا فنزل صاحبي يوم نوبته فرجع عشاء فضرب بابي ضربا شديدا وقال أنائم هو ففزعت فخرجت إليه وقال حدث أمر عظيم قلت ما هو أجاءت غسان قال لا بل أعظم منه وأطول طلق رسول الله ﷺ نساءه قال قد خابت حفصة وخسرت كنت أظن أن هذا يوشك أن يكون فجمعت علي ثيابي فصليت صلاة الفجر مع النبي ﷺ فدخل مشربة له فاعتزل فيها فدخلت على حفصة فإذا هي تبكي قلت ما يبكيك أولم أكن حذرتك أطلقكن رسول الله ﷺ قالت لا أدري هو ذا في المشربة فخرجت فجئت المنبر فإذا حوله رهط يبكي بعضهم فجلست معهم قليلا ثم غلبني ما أجد فجئت المشربة التي هو فيها فقلت لغلام له أسود استأذن لعمر فدخل فكلم النبي ﷺ ثم خرج فقال ذكرتك له فصمت فانصرفت حتى جلست مع الرهط الذين عند المنبر ثم غلبني ما أجد فجئت فذكر مثله فجلست مع الرهط الذين عند المنبر ثم غلبني ما أجد فجئت الغلام فقلت استأذن لعمر فذكر مثله فلما وليت منصرفا فإذا الغلام يدعوني قال أذن لك رسول الله ﷺ فدخلت عليه فإذا هو مضطجع على رمال حصير ليس بينه وبينه فراش قد أثر الرمال بجنبه متكئ على وسادة من أدم حشوها ليف فسلمت عليه ثم قلت وأنا قائم طلقت نساءك فرفع بصره إلي فقال لا ثم قلت وأنا قائم أستأنس يا رسول الله لو رأيتني وكنا معشر قريش نغلب النساء فلما قدمنا على قوم تغلبهم نساؤهم فذكره فتبسم النبي ﷺ ثم قلت لو رأيتني ودخلت على حفصة فقلت لا يغرنك أن كانت جارتك هي أوضأ منك وأحب إلى النبي ﷺ يريد عائشة فتبسم أخرى فجلست حين رأيته تبسم ثم رفعت بصري في بيته فوالله ما رأيت فيه شيئا يرد البصر غير أهبة ثلاثة فقلت ادع الله فليوسع على أمتك فإن فارس والروم وسع عليهم وأعطوا الدنيا وهم لا يعبدون الله وكان متكئا فقال أوفي شك أنت يا ابن الخطاب أولئك قوم عجلت لهم طيباتهم في الحياة الدنيا فقلت يا رسول الله استغفر لي فاعتزل النبي ﷺ من أجل ذلك الحديث حين أفشته حفصة إلى عائشة وكان قد قال ما أنا بداخل عليهن شهرا من شدة موجدته عليهن حين عاتبه الله فلما مضت تسع وعشرون دخل على عائشة فبدأ بها فقالت له عائشة إنك أقسمت أن لا تدخل علينا شهرا وإنا أصبحنا لتسع وعشرين ليلة أعدها عدا فقال النبي ﷺ الشهر تسع وعشرون وكان ذلك الشهر تسعا وعشرين قالت عائشة فأنزلت آية التخيير فبدأ بي أول امرأة فقال إني ذاكر لك أمرا ولا عليك أن لا تعجلي حتى تستأمري أبويك قالت قد أعلم أن أبوي لم يكونا يأمراني بفراقك ثم قال إن الله قال {يا أيها النبي قل لأزواجك} إلى قوله {عظيما} قلت أفي هذا أستأمر أبوي فإني أريد الله ورسوله والدار الآخرة ثم خير نساءه فقلن مثل ما قالت عائشة
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