Heavenly Union; A Critique of the Fictitious Story of the Prophet’s (S.A.W.) Falling in Love with Zaynab, Daughter of Jaḥsh

The story of Zayd b. Ḥāritha’s separation from Zaynab and the Prophet’s marriage with her is related in the Qur’an. Being impressed by a false story, many of the interpreters have talked about the Prophet’s falling in love with Zaynab in their interpretations and considered it as the cause for Zayd and Zaynab’s separation. This story and the interpretations given on it have always been a pretext for the enemies to undermine the Prophet (S.A.W.) and Islam. With reliance on the verses of the Qur’an, the writer intends to prove the inconsitency of the above-mentioned story and the interpretations affected by it with the Infalibility of the Prophet, weakness of its sanad, its intra-textual inconsitency and other historical data. According to the findings of this research, the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.) got married to Zaynab without any prior interest and merely by God’s command and for breaking an old paganistic tradition. This marriage, which was countrary to the social traditions and norms, laid the ground for the slanders uttered by the hypocrites and the weak in the faith; but while defending the Prophet and calling the marriage to Zaynab a Divine obligation, God absolves him from any blame. Numerous Qu’ranic, theological, historical and Other reasons reject the ficticious story of the Prophet’s faling in love.