diwana
February 14, 2011, 12:23am
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Re: need to know for the sake of knowledge
My belief is that if Prophet (saww) was a father/guardian of any of these ladies then he would not have given them to polytheists at all.
I have researched this topic and I have many reasons to believe why Ruqqaya, Zainab, Umm Kulthoom were not the daughters of the Prophet (saww). I will put some points here:
In chapter 108 of Quran it is said that the Quraysh used to call Prophet (saww) “Al-Abtar” or one who has no offspring (since Fatimah was not born at the early part of his mission). Tafsir Ibn Kathri says about the last verse of Sura Kawsar;
"…Ibn Abbas, Mujahid, Said bin Jubayr and Qatadah all said, "This Ayah was revealed about Al-As bin Wa'il. Whenever the Messenger of Allah would be mentioned (in his presence) he would say, Leave him, for indeed he is a man who is cut off having no descendants. So when he dies he will not be remembered.’ "
So if the Prophet (saww) had all these biological, living daughters then why was he called one with “no descendants” until the birth of Fatimah (as)?
Prophet (saww) was mrried at the age of 25. He did not have any children until he was 29 (some traditions say 30). This means that it is about ten years before the open declaration of baasat (Prophethood) since the Prophet was 40 years of age at time of Prophethood. And it is also known that three daughters were married to Utba, Uteba and Abu al Aa’s bin Rab’ee before Prophethood. This means that Qasim plus 3 daughters, if they were real, were born within the period of 10 years from Khadija (as) and got married and already had children. Really does not add up!
Where is the mention of these other daughters in the 6 sahi books of Sunni hadith? Fatimah (as) and her merits are recounted under a whole separate chapter.
why only the descendants of Fatimah (as) were recognized as Syeds in history until today? There is enormous amount of info in details in regards to children of Fatimah (as), why not the same for the other daughters?
Wasalam,
ramesha
I am not sure why you did not get the questions right.
I take it you believe the Prophet SAW knowingly gave these women to polytheists. It does not matter if they were biological daughters or not he SAW would not do that. Correct me on this one. He saw would not go against Quran.