\nNarrated `Aisha:\n \n\nRegarding the Verse:--"If a woman fears cruelty or desertion on her husband's part." (4.128) It is \nabout a man who has a woman (wife) and he does not like her and wants to divorce her but she says to \nhim, "I make you free as regards myself." So this Verse was revealed in this connection.\n

\nNarrated `Aisha:\n \n\nRegarding the Verse:--"If a woman fears cruelty or desertion on her husband's part." (4.128) It is \nabout a man who has a woman (wife) and he does not like her and wants to divorce her but she says to \nhim, "I make you free as regards myself." So this Verse was revealed in this connection.\n

\nحَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ مُقَاتِلٍ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ، أَخْبَرَنَا هِشَامُ بْنُ عُرْوَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ ‏{‏وَإِنِ امْرَأَةٌ خَافَتْ مِنْ بَعْلِهَا نُشُوزًا أَوْ إِعْرَاضًا‏}‏‏.‏ قَالَتِ الرَّجُلُ تَكُونُ عِنْدَهُ الْمَرْأَةُ لَيْسَ بِمُسْتَكْثِرٍ مِنْهَا يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُفَارِقَهَا فَتَقُولُ أَجْعَلُكَ مِنْ شَأْنِي فِي حِلٍّ‏.‏ فَنَزَلَتْ هَذِهِ الآيَةُ فِي ذَلِكَ‏.‏