Surah Mujadilah ayat 1 Tafsir Quran 58:1

﴿قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّتِي تُجَادِلُكَ فِي زَوْجِهَا وَتَشْتَكِي إِلَى اللَّهِ وَاللَّهُ يَسْمَعُ تَحَاوُرَكُمَا ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ بَصِيرٌ﴾
[ المجادلة: 1]

58:1 Certainly has Allah heard the speech of the one who argues with you, [O Muhammad], concerning her husband and directs her complaint to Allah. And Allah hears your dialogue; indeed, Allah is Hearing and Seeing.

God has certainly heard the words of her who disputes with you her who consults you O Prophet concerning her husband who has repudiated her by zihār — he had said to her ‘You are to me as untouchable as the back of my mother’. She asked the Prophet s about this and he told her that she was thenceforth forbidden to him as was customary among them at the time of Jāhiliyya namely that repudiation by zihār results in permanent separation. She was Khawla bt. Tha‘laba and he was Aws b. al-Sāmit — and complains to God of her being alone and of her impoverishment while having young children whom if she were to leave with him they would go astray but whom if they remained with her would go hungry. And God hears your conversation your consulting. Assuredly God is Hearer Seer He is Knower.

Allah has heard the allegation of the woman who has reported her husband to you as having wronged her, and urges a prayer appealing to Allah for mercy. Allah hears the series of statements by both of you intended to establish an edict. Allah is Samiun and Bassirun (hears and sees all in all)

Which was revealed in Al-Madinah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Reason for revealing this Surah Imam Ahmad recorded that `A'ishah said, "All praise be to Allah, Who hears all voices.
"The woman who disputed" came to the Prophet and argued with him while I was in another part of the room, unable to hear what she said.
Allah the Exalted and Most Honored revealed this Ayah, قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّتِى تُجَادِلُكَ فِى زَوْجِهَا ( Indeed Allah has heard the statement of her that disputes with you concerning her husband. )" till the end of this Ayah.
Al-Bukhari collected this Hadith without a chain of narration in the Book of Tawhid in his Sahih.
An-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Jarir also collected this Hadith.
In the narration that Ibn Abi Hatim collected, `A'ishah said, "Blessed is He, Whose hearing has encompassed all things.
I heard what Khawlah bint Tha`labah said while some of it I could not hear.
She was complaining to Allah's Messenger ﷺ about her husband.
She said, `O Allah's Messenger! He spent my wealth, exhausted my youth and my womb bore abundantly for him.
When I be- came old, unable to bear children, he pronounced the Ziharon me! O Allah! I complain to you.' Soon after, Jibril brought down this Ayah, قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّتِى تُجَادِلُكَ فِى زَوْجِهَا ( Indeed Allah has heard the statement of her that disputes with you concerning her husband, )" She added, "Her husband was Aws bin As-Samit."

(58:1) Allah *1 has surely heard the words of her who contends with you concerning her husband and complains to Allah. Allah hears what both of you say. *2 Verily Allah is All- Hearing, All-Seeing.

Certainly has Allah heard the speech of meaning

*1) Here, hearing does not merely imply hearing a complaint but also redressing the grievances
*2) The translators generally have translated these sentences in the past tense, which tends to give the meaning that the woman had left after relating her complaint and the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be Allah's peace ) some time later might have received this Revelation.
That is why Allah has said: We indeed heard what the woman said, who was pleading with you and complaining to Us, and We were at that time hearing the conversation of both of you." But in most of the traditions that have been reported in the Hedith about this incident, it has been stated that right at the rime when the woman was relating the zihar pronounced by her husband and complaining to the Holy Prophet to the effect that if she was separated from her husband, she and her children would be ruined, the state of receiving Revelation appeared on the Holy Prophet ( upon whom be Allah's peace ) and these verse's were sent down.
On this basis we have preferred rendering these sentences in the present tense.

The lady concerning whom these verses were sent down was Khaulah bint-Tha`labah of the Khazraj tribe, and her husband, Aus bin Samit Ansari, was brother of Hadrat `Ubadah bin Samit, the chief of the Aus tribe.
The story of the zihar upon her is related in detail below.
What is worth mentioning here is that the incident of the lady's complaint being heard by Allah Almighty and the coming down of the Divine command immediately to redress her grievance was an event that earned her a place of honour and esteem among the Companions.
Ibn Abi Hatim and Baihaqi have related that once Hadrat `Umar was on his way out with some companions.
On the way he came across a woman, who stopped him; he immediately stopped and listened to what she had to say patiently with his head bent down, and did not move till she had finished.
One of the companions said: 'O Commander of the Faithful, you held back the Quraish chiefs for so long for the sake of this old woman! " Hadrat `Umar said: " Do you know who she is ?She is Khaulah bint-Tha'labah, the lady whose complaint was heard at the seventh heaven.
By God! even if she had kept me standing till the night, I would have kept standing; I would only have excused myself at the Prayer times. " Ibn `Abdul Barr has related in Al-Isti ab this tradition from Qatadah: " When Hadrat `Umar came across this lady .
on the way, he greeted her.
After answering his greeting, she said, "Hey, O `Umar, there was a time when I saw you at the `Ukaz, festival.
Then you were called `Umair.
You tended goats with the shepherd's staff in your hand.
Then, not very long after this, you began to be called `Umar.
Then a time came when the people began addressing you as Commander of the Faithful.
So, fear Allah with regard to your subjects, and remember that the one who fears Allah's punishment, for him the stranger also is like a close kinsman, and the one who fears death, may well lose that very thing which he wants to save.' At this, jarud 'Abdi, who was accompanying Hadrat `Umar, said: O woman, you have talked insolently to the Commander of the Faithful.
" Thereupon Hadrat `Umar said: Let her say whatever she has to say.
Do you know who she is?-She was heard at the seventh heaven.
So, she deserves to be heard longer and with greater attention by 'Umar. " Imam Bukhari also has related briefly a story resembling this in his History.

 

Which was revealed in Al-Madinah بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Reason for revealing this Surah Imam Ahmad recorded that `A'ishah said, "All praise be to Allah, Who hears all voices.
"The woman who disputed" came to the Prophet and argued with him while I was in another part of the room, unable to hear what she said.
Allah the Exalted and Most Honored revealed this Ayah, قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّتِى تُجَادِلُكَ فِى زَوْجِهَا ( Indeed Allah has heard the statement of her that disputes with you concerning her husband. )" till the end of this Ayah.
Al-Bukhari collected this Hadith without a chain of narration in the Book of Tawhid in his Sahih.
An-Nasa'i, Ibn Majah, Ibn Abi Hatim and Ibn Jarir also collected this Hadith.
In the narration that Ibn Abi Hatim collected, `A'ishah said, "Blessed is He, Whose hearing has encompassed all things.
I heard what Khawlah bint Tha`labah said while some of it I could not hear.
She was complaining to Allah's Messenger ﷺ about her husband.
She said, `O Allah's Messenger! He spent my wealth, exhausted my youth and my womb bore abundantly for him.
When I be- came old, unable to bear children, he pronounced the Ziharon me! O Allah! I complain to you.' Soon after, Jibril brought down this Ayah, قَدْ سَمِعَ اللَّهُ قَوْلَ الَّتِى تُجَادِلُكَ فِى زَوْجِهَا ( Indeed Allah has heard the statement of her that disputes with you concerning her husband, )" She added, "Her husband was Aws bin As-Samit."

And from his narration on the authority of Ibn ’Abbas that he said concerning the interpretation of Allah’s saying ( Allah hath heard ): ’( Allah hath heard ) He says: Allah heard before He informed you, O Muhammad, ( the saying of her that disputeth ) that speaks to and argues ( with thee (Muhammad ) concerning her husband, and complaineth unto Allah) and entreats Allah, Exalted is He, to explain her matter. ( And Allah heareth your colloquy ) and Allah hears your conversation and exchange of words. ( Lo! Allah is Hearer ) of your conversation, ( Knower ) of her matter. The story is that Khawlah Bint Tha’labah Ibn Malik Ibn al-Dakhshim al-Ansariyyah was married to Aws Ibn al-Samit al-Ansari and the latter, who was touched by the jinn, wanted to have sexual intercourse with her while in her period. When she refused, he became angry and said: if you leave the house before I have sexual intercourse with you, you are unlawful to me just as my mother is.

Indeed Allah has heard the statement of her (Khaulah bint Tha'labah) that disputes with you (O Muhammad SAW) concerning her husband (Aus bin As-Samit), and complains to Allah. And Allah hears the argument between you both. Verily, Allah is All-Hearer, All-Seer.

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