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[quote]The prophet pbuh undertook to forbid  himself of something that was not haraam to please his wives. The Qur'an has not clarified the incident. According to hadith and historians   there were two possible incidents that became the cause of it. One involved Hazrat Maria and the other involved honey.

In the incident involving hazrat Maria. The prophet pbuh  after Sulah i Hudebiyah  wrote letters to the head of States of different counteries about Islam. Among these he wrote one to the ruler of Alexandria called Patriarch. Hazrat Hatib bin Abi Baltaa was the ambassador who took the letter. Patriarch did not embrace Islam but stated that he believed that  another prophet would come but he will be from Syria, however he treated the ambassador well and sent two women with him. They were Sireen and Maria.( Ibn i Saad) On the way back from Egypt, Hazrat Hatib presented Islam to both of them and they embraced Islam.

When they were presented to prophet pbuh, hegave Sireen to Hazrat Hasaan bin saabit in  his maalik i yameen and enetered Maria in his haram.

According to Hafiz  ibn i Hajjar  in Al isaaba, hazrat Aishah stated that " I did not feel dislike for anyother women to come then Maria, because she was beautiful and prophet pbuh liked her".

Different accounts have been given about the possible incident that took place. According to one Prophet pbuh , one day went to Hazrat Hafza's house and she was not there, At that time hazrat Maria came  and she stayed with the prophet pbuh and she stayed with him in private. Hazrat Hafza did not like this and she complained to prophet pbuh about this and he promised  not to have any personel relations with Maria again. ACcording to some he made Maria haram on him and other 's say that he even took an oath to that effect. These have mainly been reported by Ta'abayeen but others have also quoted Hazrat Umar, Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas and hazrat Abu Hurerrah. H afiz ibni Hajjar has stated in Fatah al Bari that frequency of reporting suggests that something of this sort did take place. But this incident is not reported in Sahahi sita. In Nassai hazrat Anas has written that the prophet pbuh had a slave girl with whom he used to have tamatuh, then hazrat Hafzah and hazrat Aishah complained to him and he made her haram upon him.on this this verse of Qur'an came that why do you make haram on yourself that is halal.

The second incident is quoted in Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Daoud and Nissai. It has been quoted from Hazrat Aishah that prophet pbuh used to visithis wives after namaz i Asar. It so happened that the prophet pbuh started staying at Hazrat Zainab bin hajjash longer because she had recieved Honey  and prophet pbuh had a sweet tooth, prophet pbuh used to drink syrup made from honey. Hazrat Aishah rta  stated that  she felt jealous and she  with hazrat Hafzah, hazrat Saudah and hazrat Safia made the plan that when they will see the prophet pbuh, will comment that his mouth smells of maghafeer. Maghafeer is a flower which contains an odour and if the honey bee  saps juice from this flower the honey has a certain odour to it. The prophet pbuh was particular and sensitive to  odour and smell., thus this plan succeeded in stopping the prophet from staying at Hazrat Zainab. The prophet promised not to have that honey again.

According to majority of scholars thes econd one is considered more reliable including Imam Nissai, Qazi Ayaas, Qazi Abu Bakr ibn il Arabi,Imam Navaai, Hafiz Badr ud dinAyeeniIbn i Humaam in Fatah i Qadeer.and Hafiz ibn i Kaseer.

According to Amin Ahsen Islahi

Islahi favours the incident of honey. He further states that a prophet's saying and action has greta importance and bearing. He substantiates with an example that Hazrat Yaqoob for some reason did not eat Camel 's meat and Bani Israel made it haraam on them to eat it.[/quote]

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