Narrated `Aisha:
Regarding the Verse:--"If a woman fears cruelty or desertion on her husband's part." (4.128) It is about a man who has a woman (wife) and he does not like her and wants to divorce her but she says to him, "I make you free as regards myself." So this Verse was revealed in this connection.
USC-MSA web (English) reference: Vol. 6, Book 60, Hadith 125
Arabic reference: Book 65, Hadith 4601