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“Concerning Burairah and her husband the Prophet, praise and peace be upon him, said to her: ‘It is preferable that you go back to him.’ She replied: ‘O Messenger of Allah, praise and peace be upon him, do you order me?’ He replied: ‘I only intercede.’ She said: ‘I do not need him.’”

Bukhari with a chain up to ibn Abbas who related this.