Zaynab bint Jahsh (may God be pleased with her) in the writings of Orientalists: A critical historical study

Abstract

The study of the Prophet's biography and its branches took up a great place for the interests of orientalists, so they took the Prophet's biography as a material that addresses their passion for studying Islamic issues, whether from a positive or negative point of view. The orientalists dealt with the Prophet's biography according to the inclination of each orientalist, many of them dealt with the Prophet's biography in a fair way and relied on correct and approved sources, and others studied the biography in a negative way and relied on the most vulnerable sources, especially on weak and abandoned hadiths, and quoted from its scientific material. Among those who dealt with the personality of the mother of believers, Zainab bint Jahsh - may God be pleased with her - is one of the most prominent women of Islam, she is the mother of believers and her name was associated with the early Islamic proselyism, she is the daughter of the Prophet's uncle, and the news of her husband came to her husband in the book, so the book of God, and the oriententententourage, and its importance is that her life was prejudices We will respond to the suspicions raised by these orientalists in our research according to a scientific approach based on the Holy Qur'an and on the correct and approved accounts, which came in the matter of our Prophet Muhammad's ( ) marriage to Zainab bint Juhsh