Sayyidah Zaynab bint Jahsh (may Allah be pleased with her) said: Several men of Quraysh proposed marriage to me, so I sent my sister Hamnah to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) to seek his advice. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said to her: "What does she think of one who would teach her the Book of her Lord and the Sunnah of her Prophet?" She said: O Messenger of Allah! Who is he? He (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Zayd bin Harithah." Hamnah became extremely angry and said: O Messenger of Allah! Will you marry your paternal aunt's daughter to your freed slave? She came to me and told me, and I became even angrier than she was, and I said something even harsher than she had said. Then Allah revealed this verse: "It is not for a believing man or a believing woman, when Allah and His Messenger have decided a matter, that they should have any choice in their affair." [Surah al-Ahzab: 36] So I sent word to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) and said: I seek forgiveness from Allah and I obey Allah and His Messenger; do whatever you see fit. So he married me to Zayd. I used to complain about him, and he complained about me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), and the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) reproached me. Then I went back to hurting him with my tongue, and he again complained about me to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him), so the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Keep your wife to yourself and fear Allah." He said: O Messenger of Allah! I am divorcing her. So he divorced me. When my waiting period ('iddah) ended, I suddenly found that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) had come in to me in my house while my hair was uncovered, and I thought: This is a matter from the heavens. I said: O Messenger of Allah! Without a proposal and without witnesses? He said: "Allah is the one who gives in marriage, and Jibril is the witness."
Hadith Referenceالمعجم الكبير للطبراني / مسند النساء / 20480