It is narrated from Sayyiduna Rafi' bin Khadij (may Allah be pleased with him) that he had an elderly wife, and he married a young woman in addition to her and began to prefer the virgin over his first wife. His first wife refused to accept this, so he gave her one divorce, until, when her waiting period was close to ending, he said: "If you wish, I will take you back on the condition that you bear patiently with this preference (unequal treatment), and if you wish, I will leave you until your waiting period is complete." She said: "Rather, take me back and I will bear it patiently." So he took her back, but she could not again bear this preference patiently, so he gave her the second divorce and preferred the young wife. The narrator said: This is the settlement concerning which it reached us that Allah Almighty revealed this verse: "And if a woman fears ill-treatment or aversion from her husband, there is no sin upon them both if they make a settlement between themselves" [Surah an-Nisa: 128] . This hadith is sahih (authentic) on the condition of the two Shaykhs (Bukhari and Muslim), but they did not record it.