Ali b. Ibrahim (ar) says (regarding the saying of Allah, “O Prophet! Why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has made lawful for you..- Surah Tahreem (66): Verse 1)
The reason for its revelation was that the Holy Prophet (sawa) when he was in the house of some of his wives and that Maariyah Qibtiyyah (ra) used to be there with him serving him. One day while he was there in the house of Hafsah and Hafsah went out for some need, then the Holy Prophet (sawa) had food with Maariyah (ra). When Hafsah (la) learnt of this, she became angry and came to the Holy Prophet (sawa) complaining - “O Messenger of Allah! This (you did) and that too on the day appointed for me and in my very house and on my very bed!”
The Holy Prophet (sawa) felt embarrassed. He (sawa) said, “Keep this to yourself. I have made Maariyah prohibited for myself and I will never partake food with her again. I am going to tell you a secret. If you disclose this secret, upon you will be the curse of Allah and the angels and all the people. She asked. “What is it?” He (sawa), “Surely Abu Bakr will be the caliph after me and after him will be your father.” She asked, “Who informed you of this?” He (sawa) replied, “Allah has informed me.”
Then Hafsah informed Ayesha about it who then informed Abu Bakr about it. Abu Bakr went to Umar and told him, “Surely Ayesha has informed me that Hafsah told her something, but I do not trust Ayesha’s words. So can you ask Hafsah about it.”
Then Umar went to Hafsah and asked her - “What is it that Ayesha is narrating from you?” She denied it and said “I have not informed Ayesha of any such thing.” Umar told her, “If this (news) is true, then confirm it for me so that we may proceed (in this matter)”. She said,
“Yes, the Holy Prophet (sawa) did say so”.
Then the four of them agreed to poison the Holy Prophet (sawa). Then Hazrat Jibraeel (as) descended with this chapter (of Tahreem) – “O Prophet! Why do you forbid (yourself) that which Allah has made lawful for you..upto the verse - expiation of your oaths”meaning certainly Allah has made it permissible for you that you do away with your oath.
“and Allah is your Protector, and He is the Knowing the Wise.”
“And when the prophet secretly communicated a piece of information to one of his wives-- but when she informed (others) of it”– i.e. she revealed it
“and Allah made him to know it” i.e. Allah manifested for the Holy Prophet (sawa) what she revealed and whatever they intended regarding killing him (sawa)
“he made known part of it” i.e. he (sawa) informed her (about divulging the secret about Abu Bakr’s caliphate) and demanded – Why did you leak the secret that I had confided in you?
“and avoided part” i.e. he (sawa) did not divulge the information that he (sawa) was aware of their plan to murder him (sawa).
“so when he informed her of it, she said: Who informed you of this? He said: The Knowing, the one Aware, informed me.”
“If you both turn to Allah, then indeed your hearts are already inclined (to this); and if you back up each other against him, then surely Allah it is Who is his Guardian, and Jibreel and -the believers that do good” i.e. Ameerul Momineen (a.s.)
He (sawa) then addressed her saying – “Maybe, his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your place wives better than you, submissive, faithful, obedient, penitent, adorers, fasters, widows and virgins.” i.e. Ayesha because the Prophet (sawa) did not marry any wife while she was a virgin except Ayesha.
Ali b. Ibrahim (ra) narrates regarding the verse – “Allah sets forth an example” i.e. Allah sets forth an example regarding both of them (two wives of Prophet sawa).
“Allah sets forth an example to those who disbelieve the wife of Nuh and the wife of Lut: they were both under two of Our righteous servants, but they acted treacherously towards them…”
Ali b. Ibrahim (ra) – By Allah, He does not mean anyone else under “they acted treacherously” other than Faheshah.And there will be an Islamic punishment for so and so (Faheshah) because of what she did on the way to Basrah.
And so-and-so used to love her. Then when she intended to go to Basrah, so-and-so told her, “It is not permitted for you to go out without a mahram.” Then she offered herself in marriage to him.
“And Allah sets forth an example to those who believe the wife of Firon when she said: My Lord! Build for me a house with Thee in the garden and deliver me from Firon and his doing, and deliver me from the unjust people. And Mariyam, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity”
He (so and so) said - He never looked at her.
“so We breathed into her of Our inspiration” i.e. the Spirit of Allah, a creation.
“and she was of, the obedient ones.” i.e. from those who used to call upon Allah.
(Tafseer-e-Ali b. Ibrahim (ra) under the tafseer of Surah Tahreem (66))
NOTE
1. The man who married Ayesha was none other than Talha. He had his sights on Ayesha right from the time of the Prophet (sawa) and used to taunt him (sawa) that you marry our widows, I will marry your widow meaning Ayesha. This upset the Prophet (sawa) so much that Allah revealed the verse ’…and it does not behove you that you should give trouble to the Apostle of Allah, nor that you should marry his wives after him ever…(Surah Ahzab (33): Verse 53)
2. The Islamic punishment mentioned here will be given to Ayesha by Imam Mahdi (atfs) on his reappearance. She will also be punished for other sins like accusing Maariyah (ra) of adultery.
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