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قَوْلُهُ تَعَالَى: {وَإِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَبَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَلَا تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ} [البقرة: 232]

nasai-kubra:10975Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī > Surayj b. Yūnus > Hushaym > Yūnus > al-Ḥasan > Maʿqil b. Yasār

[Machine] I married my sister to one of us, but he divorced her. When her waiting period ended, he proposed to her and she accepted. So I said to him, "I married her to you and gave you preference, then you divorced her. She will not return to you." Then the verse was revealed: "And when you divorce women and they have fulfilled their term, do not prevent them from remarrying their [former] husbands if they agree among themselves on an acceptable basis." [Quran 2:232] So I said to him, "Certainly, she will return to you."  

الكبرى للنسائي:١٠٩٧٥أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنُ عَلِيٍّ حَدَّثَنَا سُرَيْجُ بْنُ يُونُسَ عَنْ هُشَيْمٍ أَخْبَرَنَا يُونُسُ عَنِ الْحَسَنِ عَنْ مَعْقِلِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ قَالَ

زَوَّجْتُ أُخْتِي رَجُلًا مِنَّا فَطَلَّقَهَا فَلَمَّا انْقَضَتِ الْعِدَّةُ خَطَبَهَا إِلَيَّ وَوَافَقَهَا ذَلِكَ فَقُلْتُ لَهُ زَوَّجْتُكَ وَآثَرْتُكَ ثُمَّ طَلَّقْتَهَا مَا هِيَ بِالَّتِي تَعُودُ إِلَيْكَ فَنَزَلَتْ {وَإِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَبَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَلَا تَعْضُلُوهُنَّ أَنْ يَنْكِحْنَ أَزْوَاجَهُنَّ إِذَا تَرَاضَوْا بَيْنَهُمْ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ} [البقرة 232] فَقُلْتُ لَمَّا نَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الْآيَةُ أَمَا إِنَّهَا سَتَعُودُ إِلَيْكَ