Volume 6, Book 60, Number 124:
Narrated ‘Aisha:
Regarding the Verse:–“They ask your instruction concerning the women. Say: Allah instructs you
about them and yet whom you desire to marry.” (4.127) (has been revealed regarding the case of) a
man who has an orphan girl, and he is her guardian and her heir. The girl shares with him all his
property, even a date-palm (garden), but he dislikes to marry her and dislikes to give her in mar –
riage to somebody else who would share with him the property she is sharing with him, and for this
reason that guardian prevents that orphan girl from marrying. So, this Verse was revealed: (And Al –
lah’s statement:) “If a woman fears cruelty or desertion on her husband’s part.” (4.128)