(And marry not those women whom your fathers married…) [4:22]. This was revealed about Hisn ibn Abi al-Qays who married the wife of his father Kubayshah bint Ma’an, al-Aswad ibn Khalaf who married the wife of his father, Safwan ibn Umayyah who married his father’s wife Fakhitah bint al-Aswad ibn al-Muttalib and also about Manzur ibn Zabban who married the wife of his father Mulaykah bint Kharijah. Said Ash‘at ibn Sawwar: “When Abu Qays who was one of the righteous people of Medina died, his son Qays proposed to the wife of his father. She said to him: ‘But I consider you like my son. I will consult the Messenger of Allah, Allah bless him and give him peace, to see what he commands’. When she went and informed him, Allah, exalted is He, revealed this verse”.
Asbab Al-Nuzul by Al-Wahidi , trans. Mokrane Guezzou
