Hadith 22

Tafseer Al-Qummi – Allah has Heard [58: 1] – Verse. He said, ‘The reason of the Revelation of this Chapter is that the first one to do ‘Zihaar’ in was a man called Aws Bin Al-Samit from the Helpers, and he was an old man. He got angry upon his wife one day and said to her, ‘You are unto me like the back of my mother’. Then he regretted upon that. He said, ‘And it was so that during the pre-Islamic period, whenever a man said to his wife, ‘You are unto me like the back of my mother’, she would be prohibited unto him up to the end, forever. So, Aws said to his wife, ‘O Khawla! We used to prohibit by this during the pre-Islamic period, and Allah-azwj has Come to us with, so go to Rasool-Allah-saww and ask him-saww about that’. Khawla came to Rasool-Allah-saww and she said, ‘May my father and my mother be (sacrificed for) you-saww, O Rasool-Allah-saww! Aws Bin Al-Samit, he is my husband and father of my children and a son of my uncle. He said to me, ‘You are unto me like the back of my mother’, and would be prohibited by that during the pre-Islamic period, and Allah-azwj has Come to us with Islam through you-saww’. It was narrated to us by Ali Bin Al Husayn, from Ahmad Bin Abu Abdullah, from Al Hassan Bin Mahboub, from Abu Wallad, from Humran, ‘From Abu Ja’far-asws having said: ‘A woman from the Muslims came to the Prophet-saww and said, ‘O Rasool-Allah-saww! So and so, my husband, I gave him my belly for the seeding (giving birth), and assisted him upon his world and his Hereafter. He did not see anything abhorrent from