Reviewing Some Narrations about the Revelation of Verse 37 of Surah Al_Ahzab(The Marriage of the Prophet (PBUH) to Zainab bint Jahsh)

The cause of revelation is narrations narrated from the infallibles companions and followers, all of which do not have the same value. One of the ways to trust these narrations is to be confirmed by the verses, to be in line with the context of the verses and to be valid in their document and text. The narrations regarding verse 37 of surah Al_Ahzab which are related to marriage of the Prophet (PBUH) to his adopted son’s ex-wife, Zainab bint Jahsh are of two categories.The first group considers the reason for this marriage to be divine revelation and the second group considers it due to the Prophet(PBUH)‘s love for Zainab. The content of these two groups of narrations causes conflict and differences of opinon about the ambiguty of the pharse “And you were concealing in your heart what Allah was going to reveal, and you were fearing people, while Allah is more entitled to be feared by you” is mentioned in the verse. In this study, the narrations were prepared according to the date of the first narrators‘ death and considering the characteristics of the source, document, Text, context of verses and historical evidence it was found that the narrations of the second group (Ten Haddiths) did not appear in the first hand sources. In terms of document, it faces weaknesses such as weak or unknown narrators, interrupption and submission of document. In textual studies, the scattering of texts, contradictions and lack of explicitness weaknes these narrations. In addition the context doesn’t conform it, and the available cvidence reinforces the theory that these  hadiths are fabricated.