The Aspect of Lady Zahrāʾ’s Virtues in Suyūṭī’s Textbooks and its Pathology

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (Arabic: جلال الدین السیوطی), one of the hardworking scholars of Shāfiʿī religion (Arabic: مذهب الشافعی, Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī), has explained the position of Lady Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ (Arabic: فاطمه ٱلزهراء) (Salām-u-Allah ʿAlaihā) [Peace Be Upon Her] in a number of his writings. The present research utilizes library resources and descriptive classification method to find the virtues and position of Lady Zahrāʾ (AS) in various exegetical, narrative and historical texts of Suyūṭī. The concept of Ahl al-Bayt (Arabic: اهل البیت, lit.  people of the house) in the first step has been studied in his writings in order to evaluate the general position of lady Zahrāʾ (AS) as a member of the Ahl al-Bayt in the opinion of the Sunni. The result of this research is that the virtues of Lady Zahrāʾ in the writings of Suyūṭī was divided into the following eight categories: remembrance of the worldly position and the other worldly of Lady Zahrāʾ, her position in the presence of the Prophet of Islam, the position of her husband and children, the ritual sīra (Arabic: السیره) and behavioral life of the daughter of the Messenger of God, the exegetical narrations about Lady Zahrāʾ, the importance of her satisfaction or dissatisfaction and her sufferings after the death of the Messenger of God. In the end, some of the damages of quoting virtues and Fāṭimī Sīra have been mentioned in the Suyūṭī’s writings which include: lack of attention to the narration of Fāṭimī traditions, narrations incompatible with history, lack of attention to traditions quoted by Imami narrators, mentioning fake traditions and dealing with the thought of simulating Fāṭimī’s virtues simulation for others.