Volume 7, Book 62, Number 61:
Narrated Al-Hasan:
concerning the Verse: ‘Do not prevent them’ (2.232) Ma’qil bin Yasar told me that it was revealed
in his connection. He said, “I married my sister to a man and he divorced her, and when her days of
‘Idda (three menstrual periods) were over, the man came again and asked for her hand, but I said to
him, ‘I married her to you and made her your bed (your wife) and favored you with her, but you di –
vorced her. Now you come to ask for her hand again? No, by Allah, she will never go back to you
(again)!’ That man was not a bad man and his wife wanted to go back to him. So Allah revealed this
Verse: ‘Do not prevent them.’ (2.232) So I said, ‘Now I will do it (let her go back to him), O Allah’s
Apostle.”So he married her to him again.